Expert Focus: What is fair in the context of data and cost sharing under REACH?

摘要

Partner Simon Tilling and solicitor Tom Gillett, in the environment and product stewardship practice at UK law firm Burges Salmon LLP, discuss Echa's Board of Appeal Case A-010-2017 on data sharing and its impact on the wider REACH regime. Echa's Board of Appeal Decision, in a case involving a group of Dutch and Italian dye importers, scrutinises the requirements of transparency and fairness in cost negotiations between lead registrants and those requiring access to data under the REACH regime.