Climate policy: waiting for REACH

Most of this EU Commission’s climate legislation has already been negotiated. Some proposals are still in the trilogue and should be finalized in the coming weeks. And then there is the postponed revision of the Chemicals Regulation, which is likely to make for difficult negotiations.

The European chemicals regulation REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals) should actually have been revised at the end of last year. But Commission President Ursula von der Leyen bowed to pressure from industry and the European People’s Party (EPP) and postponed the revision by a whole year. The Brussels-based authority now intends to submit its proposal in the course of the fourth quarter of 2023, but it is not yet known exactly when.

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