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Parliament approves watered-down REACH-compromise |
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13 December 2006 |
The European Parliament today gave its support to the compromise deal on the REACH regulation, agreed with the Council on 30 November. At the Parliament's plenary session, a majority consisting mainly of members of the conservative, the social-democratic and the liberal groups, secured the vote for the package presented by the Environment Committee's rapporteur on REACH, Italian MEP Guido Sacconi.
"The losers in this process are not only European consumers, but also large parts of European industry," says Nardono Nimpuno, Chemsec policy advisor. "All those companies using chemicals in their production will continue to lack access to information on dangerous substance. They will still receive products containing hazardous substances without full information, and they will still be in the precarious situation of being liable for their products containing these."
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