REACH registration, evaluation, and

Industry is obligated to submit mandatory dossiers to the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) registry, an environmental protection regulation within the framework of the European Union (EU), and are to include a GHS aquatic hazard classification proposal. Both REACH and the GHS have significant implications for environmental protection... 

The core of the new EU scheme to control chemicals is REACH Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (32, 93). REACH will place a duty on companies that manufacture, import and use chemicals in the EU to assess the risks arising from their use, which will often require safety testing, and manage any risks identified. 

ICCVAM Interagency Co-ordinating Committee REACH Registration, Evaluation and... 

REACH. In 2003 the EU Commission proposed a new chemicals policy -REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals). The biocides used in AF products are still registered through the BPD, but the other paint constituents as with all other chemical constituents produced or imported > 1 ton/year on the European market will need to be partly or fully risk assessed under REACH. The legislation is expected to enter into force in 2007 (EU, 2003b). 

On 29 October 2003, the Commission adopted a proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for chemicals, the so-called REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of CHemicals). This new regulatory framework achieved all the objectives identified in the White Paper (EU 2001) and thus represents a model of sustainable development by pursuing its three main goals economic (industrial competitiveness), social (health protection and jobs), and environmental. 

For example, once implemented, the European Commission s new chemicals policy REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) -endorsed in 2003 - would require manufacturers and importers of over one ton per year of any chemical substance to gather information on the properties, hazards, and use of that substance, and submit the data to the European Chemicals Agency. The Agency would then determine if the chemical substance needed to be further regulated, restricted, or banned from use. It is estimated that about 30,000 existing chemicals produced in or imported into Europe would be subject to REACH. Key objectives of the European Commission s initiative on the reformulation of chemicals policy are to raise human and environmental safety levels as well as to simplify and standardize the current legislation. 

This legislation, called REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals), was officially enacted on 1 July 2007. The law ensures that for thirty thousand substances more information will be disseminated, although only about 40 percent of these chemical substances will be researched for potential health and environmental risks. The remaining chemicals will continue to be shrouded in uncertainty. There is also very little research being done regarding the effects of all these substances combined, the so-called chemical cocktail. You can find more information about REACH at these links http //ec. europa.eu/environment/chem icals/reach/reach intro.htm and www. chemicalspolicy.org/downloads/REA CHisHere220307.pdf. 

Increased production levels require additional toxicology and ecotoxicology data to ensure that prolonged exposure effects are understood.10 Today, the ELINCS system is being progressed under European proposals labeled REACH—Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals. 

In order to fill the data gaps for existing chemicals the corresponding regulation has been revised in the European Union aiming at a nearly equal treatment of new and existing chemicals under the acronym REACH = Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals [37]. 

REACH Registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals SSR Secondary spatial range... 

Table 12.25 briefly summarises the basic criteria that must be met by contaminants to be classified as POPs. Table 12.26 lists the original POPs included in the Convention, along with other high-risk pollutants, which were included in 2009 in the light of the (then) latest information. Also linked with efforts to restrict the movement of persistent substances in the environment is the implementation of the new EU policy REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of CHemicals), which represents a new chemical control system to ensure that, by 2020 at the latest, only compounds with known properties are used in a manner that protects the environment and human health. 

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