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Economics and Power in EU Chemicals Policy and Regulation: Socio-economic Analysis for Managing Risks


ISBN13: 9781803928067
Published: March 2023
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £90.00



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In this timely and insightful book, Laura Maxim evaluates the use of socio-economic analysis (SEA) in the regulation of potentially carcinogenic, mutagenic, and toxic chemicals. Retracing the history of the use of cost-benefit analysis in chemical risk policies, this book presents contemporary discourse on the political success of SEA.

Informed by empirical research, theoretical analysis and professional experience in implementing EU Regulation on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), Maxim proposes a new form of risk regulation called ‘regulatory co-management’, of which SEA has become a convenient tool. Chapters outline the controversy surrounding cost-benefit analysis in the US, the history of chemical regulation in Europe since 1967, and the construction and institutionalization of the European Chemicals Agency’s (ECHA) socio-economic guidelines. The book concludes by analyzing legal, political, and ethical criticisms of the role of SEA in the authorization of chemicals such as lead chromate, chromium trioxide, and sodium dichromate.

With direct relevance to ongoing debates about the revision of EU chemicals policy, this unique book will be essential reading for practitioners of socio-economic analysis and stakeholders involved in REACH. It will also be beneficial to academics and students of environmental governance and regulation, European politics and policy, and industrial economics.

Subjects:
EU Law
Contents:
1. Introduction: socio-economic analysis in chemical risk policies
2. Cost-benefit analysis, half of a century of controversy in the United States
3. Before REACH, socio-economic analysis in the “new and existing substances” regulation
4. From the White Paper to REACH: the hours-free journey of socio-economic analysis
5. The writing of ECHA’s socio-economic guidelines: construction of a space of common mental representations on a minefield
6. Institutionalization of cost-benefit analysis as a co-management tool: the activity of the Socio-Economic Assessment Committee
7. The status of socio-economic assessments in the authorisation and restriction dossiers: micro-grounds for compromise all along the implementation of REACH
8. Co-management contested: the controversy on the role of SEA in authorisation
9. Conclusion to Economics and Power in EU Chemicals Policy and Regulation

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