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Great expectations: Reviewing 50 years of chemicals legislation in the EU

Stokes, Elen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0206-5241 and Vaughan, S. 2013. Great expectations: Reviewing 50 years of chemicals legislation in the EU. Journal of Environmental Law 25 (3) , pp. 411-435. 10.1093/jel/eqt024

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Abstract

This article is about how we look at EU chemicals law. It brings together the past and present of five decades of EU chemicals law in the hope that it may lead to a better understanding of the future potential and evolution of law in the area. The article tells a story of EU legislative centralisation, colonisation and standardisation. We argue that these historical trends have aroused certain expectations about the role and functioning of modern EU chemicals regulation in REACH. These expectations, we argue, are often unrealistically high, misplaced or at times unnecessarily low. The challenges set out in our article suggest that EU chemicals regulation in its current form is set up largely to fail. Moreover, we argue that these problems make a case for the radical reorientation of regulatory goals, values and practices and indicate that the biggest challenge in chemicals policymaking is not necessarily to meet expectations but to manage them more effectively.

Item Type: Article
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: Law
Subjects: K Law > K Law (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords: European Union; chemicals; regulation; expectations; REACH
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISSN: 0952-8873
Last Modified: 25 Oct 2022 10:14
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61513

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