REACh as a paradigm shift in chemical policy – responsive regulation and behavioural models

Führ, Martin; Bizer, Kilian

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2005.10.003

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“…43 This is similar to the "responsive regulation" suggested byFühr and Bizer (2007; Chap. 12).2 Innovative Behavioral Approaches to Analyze the Incentives of.…”

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“…The major accomplishment of REACH was, thus, to shi the burden of proof from authorities to industry. 9,23 Taking this into account and considering the increased burden of manually adding studies to a database, it may be benecial to automate the process to some extent. For this purpose, it would be appropriate to collaborate with scientic journals.…”

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“…It is a prime example of modern legislation, shiing responsibilities from public authorities to companies that manufacture, import, or use chemical substances. 9 In particular, industry actors may have to submit a registration dossier to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) which contains "all physicochemical, toxicological and ecotoxicological information that is relevant and available to the registrant". "All available biological data and information relevant to the assessment of the toxicological prole of the active, substance tested, including modelling, shall be reported" Annex, Section 8 "All available biological data and information which is relevant to the assessment of the ecotoxicological prole of the active substance shall be reported" Regulation no.…”

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Refining tools to bridge the gap between academia and chemical regulation: perspectives for WikiREACH

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Brenig

Führ

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Regulatory hazard and risk assessments of chemical substances have to include all reliable and relevant data to be credible and complete. However, screening the literature for appropriate studies and extracting data is burdensome. Therefore, reducing impediments by making data easily and readily accessible to risk assessors could result in more comprehensive hazard and risk assessments. In this paper, we study WikiPharma, a database that aggregates ecotoxicity data for pharmaceuticals, extracted from peerreviewed studies. The use of the WikiPharma database is explored to develop strategies on how similar tools can bridge between science and policy by providing risk assessors with easily accessible summary data. Specifically, adapting the concept of WikiPharma to industrial chemicals regulated under the REACH regulation is discussed. Experiences with WikiPharma show that there is interest in using peerreviewed studies in regulatory decision-making. However, tools like WikiPharma require constant updates. Hence, as for "WikiREACH", effective incentives are needed to motivate researchers to feed in relevant data for regulatory assessments. Besides, support by automated processes can aid in the labourintensive activity of gathering data. To ensure that such a tool is continuously maintained and compatible with the regulatory system, and thereby useful for hazard and risk assessments of chemicals, it would benefit from being developed in collaboration with the major stakeholders in the field, i.e. regulatory agencies, academia, industry, scientific journals, and providers of research network platforms. Environmental signicanceThis paper addresses how scientic research is (not) used in decision-making, focusing on peer-reviewed toxicity and ecotoxicity studies for regulatory assessments of chemicals. One possible reason for the overall low regulatory use of peer-reviewed studies is that the process of searching for studies is resource demanding. As a consequence, regulatory decisions are not based on all available information. This paper suggests the development of a tool that can facilitate the use of peer-reviewed studies in the REACH context ("WikiREACH"), based on experiences from the use and development of the WikiPharma database for ecotoxicity studies for pharmaceuticals. Creating equivalent tools for other groups of chemicals is possible and an important way forward.

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“…Finally Führ and Bizer (2007) try to generalize the European Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) to a responsive regulation approach as opposed to hierarchical regulation. Assessing the effectiveness as well 33 Though there is no reference to a specific behavioural effect it shall be mentioned here that experiments with different forms of auctions for allowances have shown a significant influence of these forms on the prices of these allowances and the revenues derived therefrom (cf.…”

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“…Reeson and Nolles 2009, p. 14;Porter et al 2009). as the efficiency of this approach depends on the behavioral background which the authors called "homo oeconomicus institutionalis" being characterized by cognitive limits and corresponding rule following. This is seen as a starting point for figuring out incentives for the agents being in conformity with the responsive regulation approach ( Führ and Bizer (2007) 34 A further elaboration of this approach is documented in this book (Part IV, Chap. 12).…”

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Innovative Behavioral Approaches to Analyze the Incentives of Environmental Instruments

Beckenbach

2016

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REACh as a paradigm shift in chemical policy – responsive regulation and behavioural models

Cited by 38 publications

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New Perspectives for Environmental Policies Through Behavioral Economics

New Perspectives for Environmental Policies Through Behavioral Economics

Refining tools to bridge the gap between academia and chemical regulation: perspectives for WikiREACH

Innovative Behavioral Approaches to Analyze the Incentives of Environmental Instruments

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