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News & Events News Archive Letter to the Commission of the EU Letter to the Commission of the EU
The Government of Sweden wants the EU to impose stricter requirements for information about dangerous chemical substances. Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren has written to the Commission to ensure that the objectives of REACH are realised, so that end-users can handle them safely and make conscious purchase decisions.
The EU Commission is working on drafting guidelines on how REACH, the new EU chemical legislation, is to be interpreted and applied with regard to demands for information on particularly dangerous substances in products. Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren has written to the Commission to ensure that the objectives of REACH are realised, so that end-users can handle them safely and make conscious purchase decisions.
In the ongoing work on to produce guidelines, the EU Commission advocates an interpretation of the concept of products that risks leading to information only needing to be disclosed in a few cases. Several Member States have reacted critically to the proposal.
Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren had therefore written a letter to the Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, Gunter Verheugen , and the Commissioner for the Environment, Stavros Dimas, to increase their efforts to agree on guidelines that fulfil the REACH objectives.
"I would like to emphasise that the obligation to spread information on particularly dangerous substances is one of the most important tasks of REACH," writes Andreas Carlgren.
Belgium and Austria have also sent similar letters.
Please click here to download the letter.
