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Chemical reaction
Practice Area: Regulation and Enforcement
Sector: Energy and Utilities
Jurisdiction: European Union
Published: 26 June 2008
Law Firm: Latham & Watkins
Overview
At the start of June, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) began the task of substantively administering what has been described by EU Commission officials as the EU’s most complex and complicated piece of legislation to date. REACH, the Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, came into force a year ago and will require the scrutiny of some 30,000 of the more than 100,000 chemical substances currently on the EU market.
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