Abstract
DELEGATIONS FROM the European Union's Parliament and Council of Ministers have hammered out a compromise agreement that ensures passage by the end of this year of REACH, the EU's program for registration, evaluation, and authorization of chemicals. The product of nearly six years of intense negotiation among governments, nongovernmental organizations, and industry, REACH will be a weaker regulation than when it was first proposed. Still, it will significantly change the way chemicals and downstream products containing them are made and sold in Europe by replacing a patchwork of national regulations and requiring the testing of thousands of products. Among the main points of the compromise, the new European Chemicals Agency will require chemical producers to submit a plan to substitute safer alternatives for substances it determines to be dangerous or, if no alternative exists, an R&D plan for developing replacements. About 2,500 to 3,000 chemicals out of the roughly 30,000 ...
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