Parliament adopts REACH – new EU chemicals legislation and new chemicals agency

The European Parliament adopted the compromise it negotiated with Council on the new regulation for chemicals, REACH, 13 December 2006, which will oblige producers to register all those chemical substances produced or imported above a total quantity of 1 tonne per year. The compromise package agreed with the Council and tabled by 4 political groups (EPP-ED, PES, ALDE and UEN), was approved with 529 in favour, 98 against and 24 abstentions.

• Primary Source

European Commission: Press Release: IP/06/1799: REACH: Commission welcomes European Parliament vote on new EU chemicals legislation http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/06/1799&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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