European Chemicals Agency

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European Chemicals Agency
European Chemicals Agency
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Location
Location Helsinki, Finland
Signed December 18, 2006
Established June 1, 2007
Pillar European Community
Director Geert Dancet (interim)
Website echa.europa.eu

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is an agency of the European Union which manages the technical, scientific and administrative aspects of the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) system. It is sited in Helsinki.

The Agency, headed by an Executive Director, started work on 1 June 2007 with 40 staff, who are initially seconded from Brussels to operate phone lines and train news staff. [1] Its secretariat is planned to grow gradually from around one hundred people in 2007 up to around four hundred in 2010.

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