Rustam Minnikhanov: “REACH has to keep stability of Russian production delivery to Europe”

International conference "Introduction of technical regulations REACH in European Union and its influence on export of chemical substances from CIS" was opened in Kazan.
RT Prime Minister Rustam Minnikhanov, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russian Federation Vladimir Salamatov, Head of Federal Agency on technical regulation and metrology Grigory Elkin, President of REACH-center (Helsinki) Vornamo Hannu and others took part in the event.

Vladimir Salamatov informed that European Commission confirmed the technical regulation of European Union REACH (Registration, Assessment, Permission and limitation of chemical substances).

Rustam Minnikhanov considers that holding of such great international actual event in republic means that people are interested in Tatarstan as far as it’s one of the largest petrochemical centers in Russia. Large oil and gas – production, oil chemical, chemical, machine building enterprises are located in Tatarstan. Petrochemical complex is one of the budget-making branches in republic. The main enterprises of Russian chemical industry are “Nizhnekamsknefethim” JSC, “Kazanorgsintez”, “Nizhnekamskshina”, “Nefis Cosmetics”.

New regulations concern all industrial branches. According to new REACH regulations all production imported to countries of European Union should be registered till December, 1 of the current year.

Leading specialists of REACH-center (Helsinki), export enterprises of Russia and CIS, Russian Union of manufacturers and businessmen, Russian Chemists Union, national authorities on standardization, metrology and certification of countries-participants of CIS took part in the conference.