Chemicals: EU Law

(asked on 21st March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on how many occasions the UK has opposed the restriction of a chemical by (a) another Member State and (b) the European Chemicals Agency.


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Thérèse Coffey
This question was answered on 26th March 2019

Chemicals are restricted under the European Union’s Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation & restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation.

Under REACH, the UK has opposed the restriction of two chemicals:

  • The extension of a restriction on Poly-Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) to consumer items (Annex XVII, entry 50, paragraphs 5-7);

  • A restriction on Methanol in windscreen washing or defrosting fluids (Annex XVII, entry 69, paragraph 1).

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