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<p>The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) provides a range of centralised functions
across a number of EU chemicals regimes, including facilitating collective decisions
amongst EU Member States. Under the EU REACH Regulation, it manages data about chemicals
on the EU market. Chemicals manufactured or imported in quantities above 1 tonne a
year must be registered with ECHA to access the single market.</p><p>The UK’s current
involvement with ECHA comes as part of our membership of EU. ECHA is funded mainly
through a combination of industry fees for a variety of the services it provides and
direct EU funding. The higher the income generated from fees, the lower the EU budget
subsidy. As ECHA is an agency of the EU, the UK’s contribution to its running costs
is through our general contribution to the EU budget.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p>
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