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Assessment of Health and Environmental
Benefits of REACH
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Commissioned by:
EU Commission, Directorate General Environment
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Carried out by:
Risk and Policy Analysts (RPA)
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In co-operation with:
Institute for Environmental Strategies (Ökopol)
DHI water and environment
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Duration:
2011-2012
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| Background and tasks |
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| The objective of the REACH regulation is to improve the level of health and safety for humans and the environment while at the same time fostering competitiveness and innovation of the European industries. Prior to the REACH implementation several studies were carried out to predict the types and extent of benefits for human health and the environment that could be achieved by REACH. |
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| The EU Commission is obliged to report on the operation of REACH, including the achievement of objectives in relation to the health and environmental benefits. A study on measuring some of the REACH impacts on human health and the environment is conducted by Eurostat (so called baseline study). |
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| Objectives and expected results |
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The objective of the project is to further analyze the nature and extent of benefits for human health (consumers and workers) and the environment and complement the findings of the Eurostat study. The work is focused on better describing and illustrating the benefit drivers of REACH (legal provisions triggering a benefit), quantifying the benefits where possible and developing proposals how the benefit generation could be enhanced. |
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| The project team will conduct a review of the benefit assessment studies conducted prior to REACH and extract their approaches to describing benefit drivers and quantifying health and environmental benefits. Information to update the assessments prior to REACH are not expected to be available yet. |
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| Therefore a limited number of case studies and qualitative analyses on different aspects of REACH will be conducted in order to obtain information on how the benefit drivers work in practice and which types of impacts can be measured at this point in time. In addition, information from surveys of other, parallel studies will be used. |
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| The final report will highlight the relevance of different drivers and the nature and extent of the benefits they generate, as far as possible. Furthermore, recommendations will be made as to future benefit assessment methodologies and how to enhance the functioning of the benefit drivers. |
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| Contact |
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| Antonia Reihlen |
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| Dirk Jepsen |
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