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⚠️Chemicals can make the EU economy more competitive - but the production and use of toxic substances comes at a big environmental, health, and economic cost. Yet the Draghi report omits this, and many other critical points around chemicals regulation. With 18 other organisations, including European Environmental Bureau, ChemSec and Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), we published a joint open letter on the Draghi report considerations regarding chemicals. Read more at https://lnkd.in/eF_mK4NX Among other things, Draghi's assessment of the chemicals sector doesn't consider that some chemicals may bring higher, long term costs to the European economy than the benefits they provide - from remediation and water clean up costs, to social costs potentially accounting for over 10% of global GDP. And what about the toxic chemicals that will keep circulating and accumulating within products and pollute our water and bodies for many years after they first got used? There's no comment on that where the report mentions the need for a shift to circular economy. We urge the EU Council and EU Commission to stick to the commitments made, not only on the regulation of toxic chemicals, but on many other key laws. These shouldn't be seen as a constraint, but as tools to help companies comply in the face of increasing sustainability challenges.