Canada: building on progress to date

摘要

The Chemicals Management Plan (CMP) was launched the same month – December 2006 – as the REACH Regulation was adopted in the EU, but the two are very different. Key examples are that the CMP conducted its prioritisation process right at the beginning of the programme and did not require companies to register all their substances or submit scientifc studies for all the substances they provide, whereas REACH requires both registration and the submission of scientifc studies for all substances and only brings prioritisation processes into play at a later stage.