As the EU Commission and representatives of member states gather on 3 April 2025 to discuss the reform of EU chemicals legislation REACH, HEAL stresses the importance of putting health at the core of the revision. The CARACAL meeting will see the EU Commission present their initial plan for reforming REACH.
HEAL has sent a letter to permanent representations of EU member states and EU environment ministers today, calling on their support and leadership to ensure that previous commitments made for a high level of health and environment protection will remain at the heart of the 2024-2029 EU Commission mandate, including delivering on the health protective measures promised in the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability (CSS) and the revision of REACH with no further delay. Both health and environment ministers committed to address this triple crisis of climate, biodiversity and pollution and its impact on health in the Budapest Declaration on Environment and Health adopted at the 7th Ministerial Conference on Environment and Health of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region in July 2023.
Read the full letter here
