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Environment: The Commission has recently published a report on EU legislation designed to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals

United Kingdom
26/04/1999
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EU legislation designed to protect human health and the environment from dangerous chemicals should be streamlined, used more efficiently and implemented and enforced more rigorously and consistently according to a European Commission report. The report considered the impact of Directive 67/548/EEC and Directive 88/379/EEC on the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances and dangerous preparations respectively, Regulation 793/93 on the evaluation and control of the risks of existing substances and Directive 76/769/EEC on restrictions on the marketing and use of certain dangerous substances and preparations. The report was prepared as part of a review of existing controls, with the aim of developing a more coherent chemicals policy. A workshop on the review involving member states, the European institutions, scientists, industry associations and consumer and environmental organisations will be held in early 1999. This will be followed by a Commission Communication on a new chemicals strategy and proposals for legislative changes. These are likely to place more emphasis on the precautionary principle and allowing flexibility to take account of emerging problems.

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