Archived reports — Germany

Precautionary Risk Assessment and Risk Management of Chemicals
Germany—Federal Environmental Agency
Part I: “New Strategies for ecological risk assessment and risk management of substances”
Part II: “Environmental chemicals with hormonal effect — impact, effects, minimization strategies”
These documents were written before the White Paper’s release and are thus not to be regarded as a commentary on it. However, they address numerous aspects of the current discussion by analyzing deficits and making recommendations as to how sustainability and precaution can be more firmly anchored in chemicals management policy. They set out a German government vision for chemicals management
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Common position of the German Federal Government, VCI and IG BCE, on the Future EU Chemical Policy (in German only)
2002
Agreement between the German government, the German Association of Chemical Industries, and the German Mining, Energy, and Chemical Industry Union on implementation of the REACH program.
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Methodological Problems of Assessing the Economic Impacts of EU Chemicals Policy
German Federal Environment Agency
February 2003
Summary of a conference of leading German economists. Reviews several studies of the economic impacts of the REACH proposal as well as the methodological limitations and difficulties of studies to date in estimating costs and benefits of the proposed policy.
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