Chemicals

Position Paper on AMCHAM EU Areas of Concerns and Priority Issues for the EC's REACH Proposal, April 2006.
By the American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union (AMCHAM).

The Impact of REACH on the Environment and Human Health, February 2006
By the European Commission

Reach And 'Proportionality' Under WTO Rules, June 2004.
By Alice Palmer, FIELD.

REACH: An Unprecedented European Initiative For Regulating Industrial Chemicals, May 2004.
By Samuel S. Epstein (May 2004). Presented at the International Colloquium – Cancer, Environment & Society, United Nations Educational, Social, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Paris, 7 May 2004.

Cry Wolf: Predicted Costs By Industry In The Face Of New Regulations. April 2004.
By the International Chemical Secretariat.

New Proposals for Chemicals Policy: Effects on the competitiveness of the Chemical industry, April 2004
By Arthur D. Little, study for the Directorate General for Research.

Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use in the United States: The first Eight Years, November 2003.
By Charles Benbrook. Published by the Northwest Science and Environmental Policy Center .

Analysis of residues in soft drinks, 2003.
By H.B. Mathur, Sapna Johnson, Avinash Kumar, Centre for science and environment, Dew Delhi.

Causes for Concern: Chemicals and Wildlife, 2003.
By Valery Brown of the Conservation Organization (WWF).

Zur Wirtschaftsverträglichkeit der Reform der Europäischen Chemikalienpolitik. Stellungnahme, SRU, 2003.

Partnerships for a cleaner "South", March 2003.
By Ravi Agarwal.

Crisis in Chemicals Update, 2002.
By Friends of the Earth.

Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Stockholm Convention: A Resource Guide, September 2001.
Prepared by Resource Futures International for the World Bank and CIDA.

OECD Outlook for the Chemical Industry, 2001.
By the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).


The treat posed by the "Biomedical Revolution" to the profits, liabilities, and regulation of industries making and using chemicals, 2000.
Directed by A. Michael Warhurst, Friends of the Earth.

International Trading Rules & the POPs Convention, November 1999.
By Claudia Saladin & Brennan Van Dyke, Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL).

WTO "Supremacy Clause" in the POPs Convention, July 1999.
By the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) Working Paper.

The way forward out of the chemical crisis. An alternative, precautionary approach to the regulation of the manufacturing, marketing and use of chemicals in Europe, 1999.
By Greenpeace.