Five years of REACH: First stock-taking exercise

摘要

Representatives of the chemicals industry and of the EU institutions met, on 23-24 November in Warsaw, Poland, on the initiative of the Polish EU Council Presidency. Their aim was to take stock of the first five years of implementation of REACH, the regulation on chemical products in the internal market. During the first period of chemicals registration, the deadline for which was one year ago, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) received 26,585 applications and has to date registered 5,211 substances. A review is under way by the European Commission to draw the first conclusions from this implementing period.