Discussions were focused on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH) and the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment (RoHS), which would impact enterprises worldwide, including Vietnam.
Eurocham Director Nicholas Greenfield said that two important regulations REACH and RoHS were adopted by the European Parliament in June and July last year.
The REACH regulation stipulates that all chemicals produced in large volumes and considered harmful to humans and the environment must be registered with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).
Meanwhile, the RoHS directive bans new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.
Addressing the seminar, Industry and Trade Deputy Minister Bui Xuan Khu said Europe is Vietnam’s key export market whose import-export turnover reached 10 billion euros in 2006 with an estimated annual growth rate of 15-20 percent.
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