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The 5th Annual REACH Conference 27 - 28 November 2008, Brussels Hilton Hotel

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Described as the most complex piece of legislation in the history of the European Union, REACH brings a raft of obligations and challenges for the European chemicals industry, its downstream users and importers to the EU, significantly impacting the development, production and use of chemicals.

Agra Informa's 5th Annual REACH Conference included speeches from Geert Dancet, Executive Director for the Helsinki-based European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Astrid Schomaker, Head of the Chemicals Unit of DG Environment at the European Commission and Satu Hassi MEP on the registration process for chemicals and the operation of ECHA.

Speakers from Europe's leading chemicals companies outlined the next step in the REACH process and discussed the unanswered questions related to SIEFs and Consortia, CSA and CSR development, preparing exposure scenarios, managing the impact of the release of the candidate list, handling the phasing out of SVHCs, the Only Representative concept and the challenges this brings to the supply chain.