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22 June 2011
Save the date: 23 September 2011 – REACH Conference in European Commission, Brussels
The European Commission, in cooperation with ECHA, is organising a REACH conference on 23 September 2011 in the European Commission's Charlemagne Building in Brussels. The conference will focus on the results of the first registration round, the lessons learnt, and on how to enhance preparations for the registration deadline of May 2013.
The programme includes the European Commissioner for the Environment Janez Potočnik, the ECHA Executive Director Geert Dancet and Director Christel Musset, as well as speakers from industry, authorities and NGOs. All REACH stakeholders are invited: authorities, industry associations (in particular those who focus on SMEs), consumer associations, worker associations, authorities, NGOs, and international partners.
Further details will follow.
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