Norway Shifts REACH Reporting Obligations, Extends Some Coverage to Arctic Archipelago

摘要

Norway said it will switch how it supervises workplace reporting requirements under the European Union's REACH chemicals law and will extend application of an aspect of REACH to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Norwegian oversight of REACH (Regulation No. 1907/2006 on the registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals) has been shifted from the country's Environment Agency to the nation's Labor Inspection Authority, the government said Jan. 1.