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The European environmental liability directive and comparisons with U.S. natural resource damage assessment regulations
In recent months, there has been increasing awareness and interest on the part of corporate organizations as to how to prepare for the enactment of the European Union (EU) Environmental Liability Directive (ELD)1 into national laws of the EU Member States (Member States are those sovereign countries of Europe that have acceded to the EU since 1951). Transpositions of the ELD into national laws are either enacted or imminent across the Europe.
The ELD is based on the “polluter pays” principle, making ... |
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Japan’s new era of chemical management - coming up this April
2010 and 2011 will be challenging years for companies manufacturing, importing or handling chemical substances in Japan. Major amendments 20 May 2009 to the “Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, etc” (or Chemical Substances Control Law), sometimes referred to as Japanese REACH, will soon come into effect in two phases: 1 April 2010 and 1 April 2011. While the Chemical Substances Control Law aims to prevent chemical substances from adversely affecting ... |
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