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.
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).