[Legal aspects of the REACH regulation. The control system of the REACH regulation--new approaches in the EU chemical legislation].
The REACH regulation from 2006 shall overcome the deficiencies of the previously existing inconsistent legal system of chemicals and build an efficient and innovative regulation for industrial chemicals in the EU. For this purpose, the REACH regulation is not inventing a completely new legislation for chemical substances, but refers to the existing rules, regulates and structures them in a new manner and complements them. With REACH a consistent control system for chemicals in Europe has been created, which basically is managed and coordinated by the newly established European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). In the first phases of the REACH system, information about chemicals is generated and afterwards evaluated. Then this information is used in a process of authorization and restriction, to ensure adequate proliferation and safe exposure to chemical substances. Numerous duties to furnish information complement the readjustment's procedural steps, particularly with regard to the supply chain and down to the consumer. It is mainly affected by the abrogation of the determination between new and existing substances, the principle of substitution and is based on the idea that industry itself is best suited to ensure that the substances it manufactures and places on the market in the EU do not adversely affect human health or the environment.
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Lehrstuhl für Staatsrecht, Völkerrecht, Internationales Wirtschaftsrecht und Wirtschaftsverwaltungsrecht, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, BRD. pache@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de
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