1st Edition

REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology Preventing and Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Nanomaterials

By Nertila Kuraj Copyright 2020
292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

292 Pages
by Routledge

REACH and the Environmental Regulation of Nanotechnology presents a thorough and comprehensive legal analysis on the status of nanoscale chemicals under the EU’s REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction) regulation, asking whether it effectively safeguards human health and environmental protection. This book examines the European Commission’s claim that REACH offers... Read more

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  1. Introduction






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  3. Why REACH? Investigating REACH’s history of adoption and the early question of nanotechnology regulation therein






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  5. Registration










  6. Evaluation






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  8. Authorisation






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  10. Restriction






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  12. Toxics of the law. Understanding the underlying scientific foundations of REACH and their suitability for nanoscale risk






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  14. Concluding remarks and the way forward






 



Index

Biography

Nertila Kuraj is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway, and a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley School of Law.