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Coalition Politics and Chemicals Management in a Regulatory Ambitious Europe

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The European Union (EU) has greatly expanded its environmental legislation over the past two decades. This article analyzes the recent development of the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) regulation. It uses a process-tracing technique to explore the question of how REACH was created despite signifıcant resistance from influential and well-organized industry interests and misgivings from leading European politicians and policy-makers. Examining developing coalition politics within the EU, it is argued that a relatively small coalition of green actors from EU organizations, member states, and environmental and public health advocacy groups succeeded in ensuring the development and adoption of REACH largely because the coalition included influential members from all major EU policy-making centers (the European Commission, the Council of Ministers, and the European Parliament). In addition, it is argued that the implementation of REACH can have important ramiıcations for international chemical politics and policy-making outside the EU. (c) 2007 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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  • Henrik Selin, 2007. "Coalition Politics and Chemicals Management in a Regulatory Ambitious Europe," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 7(3), pages 63-93, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:7:y:2007:i:3:p:63-93
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    2. David M Willumsen, 2018. "The Council’s REACH? National governments’ influence in the European Parliament," European Union Politics, , vol. 19(4), pages 663-683, December.
    3. Johan Eriksson & Mikael Karlsson & Marta Reuter, 2010. "Technocracy, Politicization, and Noninvolvement: Politics of Expertise in the European Regulation of Chemicals," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 27(2), pages 167-185, March.
    4. Jessica Coria & Erik Kristiansson & Mikael Gustavsson, 2022. "Economic interests cloud hazard reductions in the European regulation of substances of very high concern," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-9, December.
    5. Christoph Klika, 2015. "The Implementation of the REACH Authorisation Procedure on Chemical Substances of Concern: What Kind of Legitimacy?," Politics and Governance, Cogitatio Press, vol. 3(1), pages 128-138.
    6. Ondřej FILIPEC, 2014. "U.S. chemical policy under review: how much Europeanisation," Eastern Journal of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, vol. 5, pages 159-180, December.

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