Chinese Shoe And Leather Enterprises Will Challenge New EU Chemical Regulations

Recently, China and Europe textiles? However, the EU's new regulations on the export of chemical products outside the European Union will attract a few billion people's attention even if the EU's new regulations on the export of chemical products will be widely noticed by some medium and small-sized enterprises in Europe? The new EU regulation on chemical products is officially named "EU on chemical registration? assessment? License and restriction regulations (REACH regulations for short)? In 1998, the European Union began to formulate the regulation. The new regulation covers the production of chemicals? All aspects of trade and use safety are aimed at establishing a unified chemical monitoring and management system? According to reach regulation, the EU will transfer about 30000 chemical products on the EU market and its downstream textile products? Light industry? Are pharmaceutical products registered separately? assessment? License three management and monitoring systems, and products that fail to be included in the management system on schedule can not be sold in the EU market? At the same time, the regulation also stipulates strict testing standards, and the testing cost is very high, all of which are borne by enterprises? According to the European Union, the cost of testing a new substance is estimated at EUR 85000 per substance? Recently, the reporter learned at the hearing of the European Parliament on REACH regulations and chemical export from developing countries that, according to the statistical data from 2002 to 2004, about 3.7 billion euro chemicals exported from China to the EU will be subject to the new regulations? In other words, if the new regulations are not met, China's exports to Europe may be reduced by 3.7 billion euro per year? At present, some of China's chemical products exported to Europe are raw materials? Low added value? Products with serious pollution in the production process? Are the relevant information and data of these products incomplete or fail to meet the EU technical standards? Therefore, relevant industry insiders estimate that after the implementation of reach regulation, China's chemical export to Europe may decline, and some Chinese enterprises will face business difficulties? Chinese diplomatic professionals pointed out that the reach regulation will at least bring the following impacts on Chinese Enterprises: the competitiveness of chemical products will be weakened and the export will be hindered; the cost of imported products from the EU will increase, which will affect the development of downstream related industries; China's large petrochemical enterprises will face severe challenges in opening up the European market? Therefore, Chinese enterprises should unite and rely on the overall strength to find appropriate countermeasures? Judging from the current situation, American enterprises are most affected by the new regulations? The American Chamber of Commerce has formally raised the concerns of the US chemical industry to the EU a few days ago, and even said that it would not rule out informing the EU to the world trade organization because some provisions of the new regulations have the suspicion of "technical barriers"? At the end of 2005, the European Council of ministers reached an agreement on the reach regulation. At present, the regulation is entering the second stage of the European Parliament? In June this year, the EU Council of ministers will adopt a new version of the regulation and submit it to the European Parliament? The legislation will be formally passed by the European Parliament in October 2007?