Most organizations have a set procedure for complaints which includes time scales.

Unlike the legislative procedure, however, the regulatory procedure allows the government simply to avoid such consultations on the grounds that it is urgent to adopt the measure recommended.

Changing the agency’s focus would require an extensive rule-making process — a process that has proved troublesome to the Trump administration.

After a two-stage regulatory procedure, substances on the candidate list of substances can then be added to the list of substances subject to authorisation, which corresponds to appendix XIV of the REACH regulations.