REACH hardly reaching into US chemicals regulation reform

Dirk Arne Heyen | 22 Jul 2013

In ‘Influence of the EU Chemicals Regulation on the US Policy Reform Debate: Is a ‘California Effect’ Within REACH?’, published in Transnational Environmental Law (TEL) in April 2013, I investigated whether the demanding EU chemicals regulation (REACH) had led the exporting US chemicals sector to lobby its government to follow suit.  Some thought REACH, which entered into effect in 2007 and imposes obligations on EU manufacturers and third country importers alike, would have this effect (known as a ‘California effect’), but the article showed this was not the case.…