EP needs to strengthen key passages during second reading REACH
WECF and European Women's Lobby call on members of Environment and Women's Rights Committee to uphold comittment to substitute hazardous chemicals through REACH
06.09.2006 |Daniela Rosche
5 September 2006
Both women's networks lay down a set of key demands they are asking MEPs to support during the second reading of the draft REACH legislation. As part of the European Gender Roadmap which explicitly mentions chemicals as a threat to women's health, REACH needs to close the information gap on chemicals in the EU, phase out the very worst of them, place a duty of care for its products on the chemicals industry and ensure that women have the right to know what chemicals are contained in the products they buy.
