European Union
Enterprise Directorate General (DG Enterprise)
The Enterprise Directorate General coordinates commerce-related issues in the European Commission. It administers environmental policies affecting the internal European market. Its chemicals website has links to numerous stakeholder positions, government policies, and other various websites.
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Environment Directorate General (DG Environment)
The Environment Directorate General is in charge of implementation of various environmental policies involving chemicals management and product design. DG Environment has worked closely with DG Enterprise to develop new European integrated chemicals policies. The website contains links to numerous reports prepared for the European White Paper process.
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Eur-Lex
Eurolex is the website of legislation in force in the European Union.
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European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods Scientific Information Service
ECVAM studies and develops advanced alternative procedures to animal experiments. It provides a database of factual and evaluated information on advanced non-animal methods for toxicology assessments.
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European Chemicals Agency (ECHA)
The Agency, located in Helsinki, Finland will manage the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction processes for chemical substances to ensure consistency across the European Union. These REACH processes are designed to provide additional information on chemicals, to ensure their safe use, and to ensure competitiveness of the European industry.
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European Chemicals Bureau (ECB)
The ECB is a European Union research institution dedicated to chemicals risk assessment and analysis, coordination and harmonization of testing methods, and implementation of various chemicals directives. The website contains European risk assessments and risk management plans for several priority substances.
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European Commission
The administrative body of the European Union, representing the collective interests of member states. Its various Directorate Generals serve as administrative agencies in charge of implementing European Union policies. European Commission official documents (white papers, green papers, communications, etc.), containing links to various official positions and policy papers on chemicals and other environmental issues are available at:
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European Council
One of the governing bodies of the European Union, consisting of representatives of Member States, the European Council recommends policy initiatives and debates legislative and policy proposals submitted by the European Commission.
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European Environment Agency (EEA)
The EEA is a European Union administrative agency that aims to support sustainable development and to help achieve significant and measurable improvement in Europe’s environment through the provision of timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy making agents and the public. The Agency has conducted extensive research on chemicals information in the European Union as well as on the precautionary principle and failures in its implementation - Late Lessons from Early Warnings.
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European Parliament
One of the governing bodies of the European Union, it debates legislative and policy proposals submitted by the European Commission. The Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy generally reviews policy and legislation related to chemicals.
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