Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-12-03-Speech-3-276"
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"Madam President, like Guido Sacconi I can be fairly concise about this. This was perhaps the biggest dossier that this Parliament has known in recent years. It is one of the biggest operations on which it has embarked, and is of crucial importance in terms of the health and safety of people as they handle, use and consume chemicals which may be hazardous, dangerous or risky and so require great care.
That is why we set up REACH. That is why we brought in the pre-registration process and, subsequently, the authorisation process. That is why we are concerned to hear that it has snowballed in such a way as to almost suffocate this newborn agency.
Guido Sacconi said that he was not sure about the number of pre-registrations, but he thought that they were over one million. I can tell you that, on 1 December, when the process closed, that figure was over 2 million. It was 2 212 129 registrations from 65 655 companies. That is the scale of what has happened.
The question is: why so many? The answer, I suspect, is because a lot of firms were advised to take precautionary measures in case they had to go through the much more expensive processes later.
But the question then is: in September when we were first alerted to this, was the Commission able to step in to give support? Does the Commission believe that the registration process will now be adequate, and what steps will it take to make sure that the rest of this Agency’s processes work smoothly and effectively?"@en1
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