Discovering REACH: Lessons From the EU's Regulatory Framework For Chemicals
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The purpose of this paper is to derive an economist's research agenda from the European Union's new regulatory framwork for chemicals - REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals). With the idea of a precautionary principle, an economic analysis of REACH becomes twofold: Firstly, assessing the risks of a substance should happen at optimal cost. However, companies of different sizes produce not only at different marginal costs, but also do research at different marginal costs...
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of Environmental Science and Technology (2005); Vol. 2: |
| Editors | W. G. Lyon, J. J. Hong, R. K. Reddy |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Place of Publication | New Orleans |
| Publisher | American Science Press |
| Publication date | 2005 |
| Pages | 635-640 |
| ISBN (Print) | 0-9768853-5-2 |
| Publication status | Published - 2005 |
| Event | 1st International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology - IC EST 2005 - Fairmont Hotel at New Orleans, New Orleans, United States Duration: 23.01.2005 → 26.01.2005 Conference number: 1 http://www.aasci.org/conference/env/index.html |