There is a summary of the original proposals at
http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/lvb/l21275.htm . The 1200 pages of
the full proposals are supposed to be somewhere on the Web, but when I
looked for them a few months ago I was unable to find them.
EU legislation generally can be found at http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/ ,
but the REACH proposals are not yet legislation, I think. You can go to
the European Commission site http://europa.eu.int/comm/index_en.htm which
must have a link to them somewhere, you would think. If you search for
REACH proposals there you get 91 results. Good hunting! (The en bit in
all these URLs means the English language version. The sites are also
available in the other community languages.)

Trevor Ogden
Annals of Occupational Hygiene


At 22:02 26/03/2004, you wrote:
>Who can tell us more about Europe's REACH (Registration, Evaluation and
>Authorization of Chemicals)?
>
>Andrew Cutz, CIH
>AIHA International Affairs Committee
>Email: 627788@...
>
>
>FURTHER TO ...
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>EUROPE'S NEW CHEMICALS POLICY HITS PACIFIC RIM RESISTANCE
>
>BRUSSELS, Belgium, March 24, 2004 (ENS) - Key trading partners of the
>European Union have expressed "serious concern" over possible trade
>restrictions that might be slapped on Europe's draft chemicals policy.
>Called REACH, for Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of
>Chemicals, the proposal has drawn objections from industry and now from
>Pacific Rim countries. Environmentalists say the draft policy needs to
>be strengthened, not weakened.