Strong Industry, Safe and Healthy Environment? Making Chemicals Safety Policy in the EU Case Solution
The case intends to supply understandings into the performance for the decision-making procedure inside the European Union, the balance of power in between company interests and ecological NGOs, and also the EU's capability to produce policies that fix up the objective of keeping or establishing a strong economic climate (in this instance, chemicals industry) with this of marketing a healthy and safe atmosphere.
In 2003, in action to tensions from ecological NGOs, researchers and viewed popular opinion, the European Payment proposed a guideline needing chemicals manufacturers to show the safety of a few 30,000 compounds that had actually come on to the marketplace prior to 1981. As it created its method with the European Union's legal procedure, this task (REACH) turned into one of the more controversial problems the EU had actually handled throughout the last years, using the European chemicals sector installing a significantly extreme campaign against arrangements which it declared would possess a serious unfavorable effect on chemicals creation and work in Europe.
published: 11 Jan 2006
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