It seems to me if you're using a chemical—and these chemicals are expensive to use—you're using as little as possible to get the job done originally.

7. In the case of chemicals listed in Part 2 or 3 of Annex I, the designated national authority of the exporter’s Member State may, in consultation with the Commission assisted by the Agency, on a case-by-case basis and subject to the second subparagraph, decide that the export may proceed, if no evidence from official sources of final regulatory action to ban or severely restrict the use of the chemical taken by the importing Party or other country exists and if, after all reasonable efforts, no response to a request for explicit consent pursuant to point (a) of paragraph 6 has been received within 60 ...[+++]days and where one of the following conditions is met:

Most POPs were widely used as industrial chemicals and pesticides; a few are unintentional by-products of combustion processes and production of other chemicals.

The new draft chemicals regulation which we are now putting out for consultation should provide important opportunities for European industry to lead the world in the quality and safety of chemicals production and use which, in Europe, is already at a high level.

(25) Chemicals that are dangerous should be replaced by safer chemicals or safer alternative technologies not entailing the use of chemicals, with the aim of reducing risks to man and the environment.

Although by no means totally inclusive, we recommend to the committee today the issues listed below as some of the priority elements for this CEPA review. Those elements include increased use and initiation of precaution in chemical use, timely chemical assessment, reverse onus, increased use and substitution of safer alternatives both in the home and in the workplace, and government investment in research and development of non-toxic products.