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European Union REACH Regulation

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REACH European Chemical regulation; REACH regulation

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Since 2007 European Union has a new harmonized legislative framework in the field of chemical industry: the REACH regulation (an acronym for: Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals). From a law and economics perspective, a large set of questions emerge with this regulation such as competition, data sharing, innovation, and socio-economic analysis.

REACH

The European REACH legislation is crucial for at least two reasons: It concerns the European chemical industry and it is one of the most complex legislations that the European Union has ever decided to adopt and implement.

Chemical products are both found in nature and man-made. In our daily lives (food, paint, glue, ink, medication, cosmetics, etc.), they take the forms of substances, that is, chemical elements and their compounds, of preparations, that is, mixtures or solutions composed of at least two substances, and articles,...

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  1. CRESE, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

    Sylvain Béal & Marc Deschamps

  2. GATE, Jean Monnet University (Université de Saint-Etienne), Saint-Etienne, France

    Philippe Solal

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  1. Montpellier, France

    Alain Marciano

  2. Dept DiGSPES, Univ del Piemonte Orientale Dept DiGSPES, Alessandria, Italy

    Giovanni Battista Ramello

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Béal, S., Deschamps, M., Solal, P. (2021). European Union REACH Regulation. In: Marciano, A., Ramello, G.B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Law and Economics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_674-2

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    European Union REACH Regulation
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    19 August 2021

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_674-2

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    REACH Legislation
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    21 August 2017

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7883-6_674-1

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