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<title>Chemical Week :: People &amp; Business :: Reach</title>
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<copyright>2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 5:06:44 EDT</pubDate>

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<title>Czech President Vetoes Reach</title>
<description>Klaus: No need for tougher rules. Czech President Václav Klaus has vetoed the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) legislation...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/13613.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Reach Consortium Emerges for Hydrocarbon Solvents</title>
<description>Cefic sector group the Hydrocarbon Solvents Producers Association (HSPA; Brussels) says it has created a consortium of manufacturers to share the burden of the Registration, Evaluation and...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/13525.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Czech President Vetoes Reach</title>
<description>The legislation 'amounts to full subjugation of the whole chemical industry.'...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/13528.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>EU Chemical Agency Faces Financial Crisis</title>
<description>Dancet: Firms finding ways to spend less. The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki), the body responsible for implementing the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation and...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/13084.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>European Solvents Producers Form Reach Consortium</title>
<description>A group of 12 hydrocarbon solvents producers have formed a consortium to register their products under the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/13087.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>EU Chemicals Agency Faces Financial Crisis</title>
<description>Geert Dancet, executive director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) has told members of the European Parliament at a parliamentary environment committee hearing this week that the ECHA could run out of money....</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/13032.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>EU Proposes First Substances for ‘Very High Concern’ Chemicals List</title>
<description>The European Chemical Agency (ECHA; Helsinki), which overseas implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (Reach) law, has published...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/12949.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Conference: A Post-Reach Vision of Chemical Substitution</title>
<description>The chemical industry should incorporate cradle-to-cradle (C2C) recycling of chemicals, and toxic chemicals should be phased out, according to Michael Braungart, a leading environmental chemist...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/12928.html</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Europe Proposes First Substances for Inclusion in a List of Chemicals of 'Very High Concern'</title>
<description>It is the first step to identifying which substances will be subject to authorization under Reach....</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/12815.html</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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<title>Aromatics and Olefins Producers Form Reach Consortium</title>
<description>Olefins and aromatics producers have formed a group, dubbed the Lower Olefins and Aromatics (LOA) consortium, to share the burden of providing chemical safety data for compliance with the...</description>
<link>http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/reach/12724.html</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 0:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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