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Understanding REACH: An Overview of its Background, Implementation and Transatlantic Implications



Thursday, February 11, 2010
Product Code - EHAU04
Speaker(s): Henrik Selin
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This webinar presents important aspects and issues associated with the development of the European Union (EU) Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). The REACH regulation, which is one of single largest pieces of environmental legislation ever passed by the EU, entered into force in 2007 and fundamentally changed the ways in which chemicals are assessed and regulated in Europe. REACH is also of major importance to firms outside Europe, and a growing number of countries are using REACH as a model for changing their own national chemical legislations.

Join Henrik Selin, Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of International Relations at Boston University as he explains this complex and far reaching regulation. The presentation starts with a discussion about chemicals risk management under conditions of scientific uncertainty and competing interests. This is followed by an overview of US-EU trends in political leadership and policy making addressing chemical hazards. This is continued by a summary and comparison of major pieces of US and EU chemical legislation as a lead in to a more detailed examination of the background and step-wise implementation of the REACH regulation, including roles and obligations of firms and authorities. The presentation ends with a discussion about issues of EU-US chemical politics, policy making, and political and economic competition.

This webinar is designed for a wide range of professionals who want to learn more about the REACH regulation and the many ways in which it is important to firms and public authorities all over the world.

 

Henrik Selin

Henrik Selin is Assistant Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of International Relations at Boston University. Prior to his current faculty position, he spent three years as a Wallenberg Post-doctoral Fellow in Environment and Sustainability at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr Selin conducts research and teaches classes on global and regional politics and policy making on environment and sustainable development. He is the author of Global Governance of Hazardous Chemicals: Challenges of Multilevel Management (MIT Press) as well as the co-editor of Transatlantic Environment and Energy Politics: Comparative and International Perspectives (Ashgate, with Miranda Schreurs and Stacy VanDeveer) and Changing Climates in North American Politics: Institutions, Policymaking and Multilevel Governance (MIT Press, with Stacy VanDeveer). He is also the author and co-author of more than two dozen peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters as well as numerous reports, reviews, and commentaries, many of which focus on the politics and management of hazardous substances and wastes.