Background documents

A brief introduction to the draft legislation

REACH: Questions and Answers (January 2005)

REACH made easy

Key priorities for REACH second reading

Key priorities (English)
Key priorities (Polish)
Key priorities (French)
Key priorities (Spanish)
Key priorities (Portuguese)

Background: five key demands for REACH 1st reading

 

Open letter to Commissioners Dimas and Verheugen with recommendations for REACH's reviews and for the new Chemicals Agency

Letter to MEPs regarding a cynical advert by CEFIC in the European Voice (November 2006)
Original CEFIC Ad
FoEE spoof of CEFIC ad

Letter to MEPs regarding the Council's Common Position on REACH (29/06/06)

Letter to Commissioner Kyprianou, registering beekeeper's concerns about the approval of certain chemicals for phytosanitary use
(16/11/2006) EN FR

Letter to Environment Committee MEPs (Nanotechnology in REACH)
(05/10/2006)

Letter to Environment Committee MEPs (REACH)
(04/10/2006)

Letter to Ministers and Permanent Representations (Pesticides)
(19/9/2006)

Letter to ministers (REACH)
(22/11/2005)

REACH - Last chance to protect us from hazardous chemicals

NGO's Letter to MEPs (REACH) 27/10/05

Letter to Ministers (deca) (22/6/05) 

 

Blissfully unaware of Bisphenol A: Reasons why regulators should live up to their responsibilities A comprehensive review of the scientific knowledge available
regarding controversial Bisphenol A

Navigating REACH: An activists' guide to using and improving the new EU chemicals legislation

My Voice how to demand better protection of human health and the environmnent from hazardous chemicals

REACH Economic Facts and Figures (A briefing by Friends of the Earth Europe, EEB, Greenpeace, Health & Environment Alliance and Women in Europe for a Common Future)

"What did you buy today...?" What we know, what we do not know, and what we ought to know about chemicals in everyday household items (August 2006)

Toxic inheritance - More than 300 pollutants in breast milk - time for a new chemicals policy
- Full report
- Summary of the report
  
Profits before health and environment - How the chemical industry is undermining european chemical legislation
(Nov 2005)
   
Sick of Chemicals: a review of the evidence
Health brochure for the REACH debate that link diseases with certain chemicals that will be regulated under the new proposal (January 2005)