PURPOSE: to establish a regulatory framework for the management of chemicals at EU level and to establish a European Chemicals Agency.
LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council 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.
CONTENT: the Regulation was subject to a corrigendum. Please refer to the summary of the corrigendum to final act 32006R1907R(01) published in OJ L 136, 29.05.2007, p. 0003.