It also appoints six representatives to the Agency’s Management Board, including three members without voting rights to represent interested parties. The Commission supervises ECHA’s use of financial resources and the allocation of human resources. It may also ask ECHA to provide scientific advice in support of international activities, for instance, when developing and negotiating proposals for EU policy on managing the risks and hazards of chemicals. To support the decision making, the Commission requests scientific or technical advice from ECHA. It also takes similar decisions under other pieces of legislation that ECHA manages. The Commission decides, for example, whether specific hazardous chemicals should be restricted under REACH or whether their continued use requires an authorisation. It also makes sure that EU countries properly apply EU law, including the chemical laws that ECHA manages. It is responsible for planning, proposing and updating EU legislation as well as preparing implementing legislation that may be needed, for example, to set out fees for companies.
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