This paper offers a critical review of socio-economic analysis (SEA) in Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) restriction dossiers. We examine the conceptual setup of SEA and identify the methods used for impact assessment. Moreover, we analyse the outcomes of quantitative impact assessment across restriction dossiers and substance groups. We find that impact assessment has largely focused on economic and health impacts. Environmental, social, wider economic and distributional impacts have either been evaluated qualitatively or not at all. While this can be explained by the specific scope of the proposed restriction or by lacking data, we also observe a lack of approaches for environmental and health impact assessment. This underlines the need to develop integrated methods that transform information about chemical effects and risks into impacts and, ultimately, into benefits and damages. Furthermore, to strengthen the function of SEA as decision-support tool in REACH restriction procedures, a comparative SEA of at least two alternative restriction options should be the default.

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化学品管理 REACH 限制档案中的社会经济分析：严格审查。


本文对化学品注册、评估、授权和限制 (REACH) 限制档案中的社会经济分析 (SEA) 进行了批判性回顾。我们研究策略性环境评估的概念设置并确定用于影响评估的方法。此外，我们分析了限制档案和物质组的定量影响评估的结果。我们发现影响评估主要关注经济和健康影响。环境、社会、更广泛的经济和分配影响要么已经得到定性评估，要么根本没有评估。虽然这可以用拟议限制的具体范围或缺乏数据来解释，但我们也观察到缺乏环境和健康影响评估方法。这强调需要开发综合方法，将有关化学效应和风险的信息转化为影响，并最终转化为效益和损害。此外，为了加强策略性环境评估作为 REACH 限制程序中决策支持工具的功能，应默认对至少两种替代性限制选项进行比较性策略性环境评估。