UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum (CSF)
Terms of Reference
The purpose of the Forum is to advise Government on managing risks to the environment and to human health via the environment that may result from the production, distribution and use of chemicals. Recognising the changing circumstances in which chemicals are regulated, the Forum aims to be a strategic body, paying due regard to the promotion of sustainable consumption and production throughout the chemicals supply chain, to the life cycle of chemicals, to the precautionary principle, and to the need to add value and not replicate activities undertaken elsewhere.
In particular it will:-
- review the effectiveness of REACH in realising its goals in the light of the experience and needs of UK stakeholders;
- review the effectiveness of the UK Competent Authority in delivering its obligations under REACH, and engage it in an on-going dialogue to reflect stakeholder views and concerns;
- advise Government on measures to promote the sound management of chemicals internationally;
- continue to promote voluntary action by industry in the UK where this can make a contribution to a reduction in the overall use of those substances recognised by the Forum as being priorities for action;
- communicate and encourage best practice and innovation, and encourage others to do so;
- promote more effective linkages throughout the chemicals supply chain, and between all those with an interest in the future of a sustainable and competitive UK chemicals industry.
In order to measure the effectiveness of the activities above as they relate both to itself and others, the Forum will develop key performance indicators against which it can assess performance.
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