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Klub ELS-ED v EP: REACH: Kompromis EP chrání spotřebitele i životní prostředí
15. listopadu 2005 | Klub ELS-ED v EP, tel: +32 479 972 144
"Environmental and consumer protection are the clear winners of REACH", Hartmut Nassauer, the EPP-ED rapporteur on REACH in the European Parliament's Internal Market Committee said today, ahead of the vote in first reading in plenary on REACH.
If the proposal enters into force, Nassauer said, approximately 30.000 substances including their most important characteristics would be registered at the European Chemical Agency within 11 years. A crucial point was that producers and users of chemicals would then carry the responsibility for the provision of data and safe use ("burden of proof").
The compromise with the Social Democrats would relate the data requirements more closely to the potential risk posed by a particular substance, and not just the amount produced, Nassauer said. This would mean lower registration costs especially for chemicals produced in a volume between 1 and 100 tons per year. This would also reduce the risk that small and medium-sized companies had to withdraw chemical substances because they could not afford the registration costs, Nassauer pointed out.
Nassauer asked the British presidency of the EU not to force a vote on REACH in the Council this year. The new German government held a fundamentally different position on the legislative proposal. It was not possible, Nassauer said, to forge ahead without consulting the EU member state which had the highest stake in REACH. The new German government had a legitimate claim to bring its position into the negotiations, he said. This would not be possible anymore this year.
If the proposal enters into force, Nassauer said, approximately 30.000 substances including their most important characteristics would be registered at the European Chemical Agency within 11 years. A crucial point was that producers and users of chemicals would then carry the responsibility for the provision of data and safe use ("burden of proof").
The compromise with the Social Democrats would relate the data requirements more closely to the potential risk posed by a particular substance, and not just the amount produced, Nassauer said. This would mean lower registration costs especially for chemicals produced in a volume between 1 and 100 tons per year. This would also reduce the risk that small and medium-sized companies had to withdraw chemical substances because they could not afford the registration costs, Nassauer pointed out.
Nassauer asked the British presidency of the EU not to force a vote on REACH in the Council this year. The new German government held a fundamentally different position on the legislative proposal. It was not possible, Nassauer said, to forge ahead without consulting the EU member state which had the highest stake in REACH. The new German government had a legitimate claim to bring its position into the negotiations, he said. This would not be possible anymore this year.
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