EU Court: EU REACH Regulation On Monomers, Polymers Valid
07 July 2009 - 6:32PM
Dow Jones News
Europe's highest court has ruled that a provision in the
European Union's chemical regulation REACH, requiring monomers that
have been reacted to form polymers to be registered, is valid.
The court found that the regulation's coverage of monomers,
chemical building blocks that create polymers when they are reacted
and linked together, should be considered to include the reacted
monomers that have bound together to make a polymer.
The court was hearing a judicial reference from the U.K.'s High
Court, which is considering challenges from several companies over
the regulation's provisions on monomers and polymers.
The plaintiffs include French organic chemical firm S.P.C.M. SA,
German chemical conglomerate C.H. Erbsloeh KG, U.K. chemical
technical services specialist Lake Chemicals and Minerals Limited,
and former U.S. chemical firm Hercules Incorporated, which was
taken over in 2008 by Ashland, Inc. (ASH), another U.S. chemical
firm.
-By Mike Gordon, Dow Jones Newswires; +352 691 180 766;
mgordon.dowjones@gmail.com