4 Amendments of Mick WALLACE related to 2020/2170(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the European Chemicals Agency ('ECHA') is the driving force among regulatory authorities in implementing the Union's chemicals legislation for the benefit of human health and the environment as well as for innovation and competitiveness; notes that it provides information on chemicals, helps companies comply with legislation and advances the safe use of chemicals; underlines that Regulation (EC) No 1907/20061a (REACH Regulation) specifies that this should be done in a way that ensures that animal testing is only ever a last resort and that the use of non- animal methods is promoted; __________________ 1aRegulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (OJ L 396, 30.12.2006, p. 1).
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on ECHA to enforce more strictly the removal from the market of chemicals with incomplete registration dossiers in accordance with the REACH principal of ‘no data, no market’; notes ECHA’s commitment to reviewing all registration dossiers by 2027 and its publication in December 2019 of a list of more than 21 000 registered substances mapped in its chemical universe and assigned to pools that indicate the regulatory actions in place, initiated, ongoing, or under consideration; expresses concern that the majority of REACH-registered substances have not yet been assigned one of these pools, meaning they have not gone through any evaluation or prioritisation procedure to decide on the need for further regulatory action; recognises that fully and strictly enforcing the ‘no data, no market’ principle would require a full review of all dossiers and therefore significantly increase the programme’s costs;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Regrets the lack of resources in the ECHA budget dedicated specifically to ensuring knowledge and promotion of non-animal testing methods; reiterates its call to provide resources for staff within ECHA exclusively dedicated to animal protection and the promotion of non- animal methods across all ECHA activities1a; __________________ 1aEuropean Parliament resolution of 10 July 2020 on the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability, P9 TA(2020)0201
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Calls on the Commission to immediately recognise and restrict substances on the ECHA's Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern by including them in Annex XIV of the REACH Regulation, the so-called 'Authorisation List'; expresses serious concern that while ECHA has so far recommended 92 substances for the Annex XIV authorisation list, the Commission has only taken action on 54 of them, with no decision yet made on the remaining 38;