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A stable UK policy environment

Despite facing significant global disruptions, the聽chemical industry is transforming both the products聽and solutions it provides to society. In turn, the chemical聽sector contributes to improving quality of life and聽protecting our planet. The chemical industry鈥檚 crucial聽role in the recent pandemic 鈥� producing essential聽components for medicines, vaccines and hand聽sanitisers 鈥� is just one illustration of the sector鈥檚 capacity聽to tackle the problems our world may encounter,聽whether it be a global emergency or an everyday聽inconvenience.

With chemicals featuring in almost聽all manufactured products, delivering innovative聽solutions and technologies is at the heart of what the聽industry does. This goes hand in hand with promoting聽sustainability and effective product stewardship to avoid聽harm to our planet and people. An innovation journey聽can be long and often complex, with many facets and聽trade-offs to consider in the process.

Therefore, a clear聽and coherent policy framework and regulatory certainty聽are both essential enablers to allow existing and novel聽chemistries to be brought and taken up by the UK聽market, whilst giving confidence to our customers, local聽communities and employees聽

  • Engrain and make use of best available聽science to drive risk-based actions and聽decisions across policy and regulation to聽support a 鈥榗reate鈥� and 鈥榤ake鈥� environment in聽the UK.
  • Deliver on the long-awaited post-Brexit聽GB REACH regulation through a workable,聽protective and cost-effective alternative to the聽current regime to ensure UK manufacturers聽across supply chains are not at a聽disadvantage in a global marketplace.
  • Implement a UK Chemicals Strategy that聽enables and supports innovation and聽accelerates circular, low carbon solutions for聽planet and people.
  • Ensure our regulators are sufficiently well聽resourced with the ability to keep pace with聽transition and support inward investment.
  • Streamline Environmental Social Governance聽(ESG) reporting processes to remove the聽administrative burden on companies, enabling聽them to focus on transition progress.