Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Current EU Chemical ControlLegislation for New and ExistingChemicals -- 2.2 The Existing Chemicals Regulation -- 3 Classification and Hazard Communication for Dangerous Chemical Substances and Preparations in the EU -- 3.2 The Dangerous Preparations Directive -- 3.3 Safety Data Sheets -- 3.4 The Global Harmonised Scheme for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals -- 4 Objectives of the EU Strategy for aFuture Chemicals Policy: REACH -- 5 Registration of Chemicals -- 6 Evaluation of Chemicals -- 7 Authorisation of Chemicals -- 8 Persistent, Bioaccumulative andToxic and Very Persistent and VeryBioaccumulative Substances -- 9 The Requirement to Register andSpecial Cases -- 10 Standard Safety Data forRegistration -- 11 Non-Standard Safety Data forRegistration -- 11.2 Existing Studies and Literature Data -- 11.3 Surrogate Data: Calculation, Read-Acrossand SAR/QSAR -- 11.4 Alternatives to Animal Studies -- 11.5 Data Waivers and Weight of Evidence -- 12 The Registration Dossier -- 12.2 The IUCLID Electronic Format -- 13 The Chemical Safety Report -- 14 EU Risk Assessment -- 14.2 Human Health Risk Assessment -- 14.3 Environmental Risk Assessment -- 15 Confi dentiality and DataProtection under REACH -- 15.2 Data Protection and the Substance Information Exchange Forum -- 16 Preparing for REACH -- 16.2 Preparing for REACH -- 17 Conclusions -- 18 Acknowledgements -- Additional References -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Abstracts from the Polymer Library Database -- Subject Index -- Company Index.