Expert Focus: Key REACH authorisation judgments offer lessons for companies

摘要

Marcus Navin-Jones, a Brussels-based law partner at Keller and Heckman, discusses two key EU General Court decisions on REACH authorisation and the questions raised for companies concerned about the time and cost implications. When it rains it pours. Apparently the same is true for decisions on REACH authorisation. The start of this year saw a small wave of important decisions which began, arguably, in February when the European Commission rejected an application for authorisation for the first time.