Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution

Thank you for your letter of 19 November advising me of the Commission's new investigation into the long-term effects of chemicals in the environment.

This is an extremely far-reaching issue, covering many topics and concerns. Your letter asked for "views and information that will help scope the study". To this end I thought a list of topics, stakeholders, issues, regulations etc. might be helpful and I have drawn up the attached "personal brainstorm" output in the hope that it might be of some use in your preliminary exercise.

Please do feel free to get back to me with any questions or queries on this (and especially if I have used any unfamiliar acronyms)

Chemicals in the environment: Stakeholders, regulations, topics, issues, etc.
ILGRA
RATSC
Chemicals Stakeholder Forum
COM/COT etc
ACHS
CPL Regs
COSHH
Dangerous Products Directive
Marketing & Use Directive
Water Framework Directive
Groundwater Directive
Marine Conventions
International River Basin Conventions
COMAH Directive/Regulations (accidents)
OSPAR
EUSES
NONS
HPV
ICCA-HPV
OECD-SIDS
US-HPV
(CEFIC)
Endocrine disruption
Role of the media
Sustainable Development
Precautionary Principle
Biodiversity
Diffuse sources
Transport incidents
Commodity chemicals
Consumer products
Groundwater pollution
POPS
Persistance/Bioaccumulation/Toxicity criteria
EQSs
'Red Lists' etc.
'Priority' schemes

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