REACH Background
Internet Consultation on Draft Chemicals Legislation (the
REACH System)
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Directorate Generals Enterprise and Environment
are preparing draft legislation to implement the ‘White Paper
– Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy’. During the consultation
period, comments were invited on the workability of the proposed
system, including the technical requirements.
The consultation was launched on 15 May
2003 and closed on 10 July 2003.
We have received between 6300 and 6500 contributions
to the consultation and a number of specific questions. We
are grateful for your participation in the development of
this important area.
The responses that were sent to the Commission
by e-mail, letter or fax are being published on DG Enterprise's
website. Please note that due to the high number of responses
using these channels (approximately 5500) full publication
of these responses may take some time. If you are looking
for a particular response and cannot find it, rest assured
that it will be published shortly.
All responses received via the Interactive
Policy Making (IPM) tool are included in a report in pdf form. The two main sections of the report are:
[Hint: Contract the bookmarks to see
the structure more clearly.]
Within each of these sections, the report
is sorted by stakeholder type in the order Industry, NGO/Trade Union, Other (citizen, academic
institute, ...), Public Authority, then
by country and finally alphabetically by stakeholder name.
The stakeholder name is taken as the organisation name, in
the case of responses on behalf of an organisation and as
the contact name in the case of responses as an individual.
Where respondents have requested confidentiality, the stakeholder
name is replaced by "**********".
The draft legislation is available in 7 volumes:
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