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"Madam President, I want to thank the Commissioner for his answer. In view of the fact that the number wanting to pre-register was so incredibly higher than we had first thought, I think we can still say that a lot has worked. After all, despite everything 2.2 million people have succeeded in registering – and from 65 000 different businesses, as Mr Bowis said. No doubt it is actually a good thing that we are made aware of how much the chemicals are used. Perhaps it indicates a certain nervousness and a feeling of ‘better safe than sorry’ which is resulting in people registering even though the same use may already have been registered, et cetera. However, we will not be able to tell whether this is the case until later.
As a result, however, I wish to ask a follow-up question. In sharp contrast to the number that have pre-registered their chemicals, we have extremely few chemicals on the candidate list of the most dangerous chemicals. There are just 15 at present, when we have 27 PBTs and 800 other chemicals that should already be included here. Imagine if there were to be a very rapid increase in these. In future proceedings within REACH and as we approach the next deadline, how will the European Chemicals Agency cope when decisions are required from it? In my judgment, we need to increase the workforce of the European Chemicals Agency substantially if REACH is to succeed. Otherwise I believe that at the end of the next stage, when we need decisions from the Agency, they will have no chance of making the required decisions in time. I therefore really believe that we must make provision at this stage for a substantially increased budget for the European Chemicals Agency."@en1
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