Ink Manufacturers Prepare Themselves as REACH Legislation is Approved

The European Union’s legislation on the registration, evaluation and authorization of chemicals, called REACH, has now gone through the final stages of approval to enable it to come into force in June 2007.      The two main arms of the EU’s legislature – the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers, representing the governments of the Union’s 25 member states – seemed a few months ago to be heading for deadlock over the controversial legislation.      But a compromi...