Spotlight on Regulatory Updates
What You Need to Know
REACH Registration process for your substance
The final REACH Registration deadline is just four years away, on May 31st 2018. A Registration Dossier takes approximately six months to assemble, involving input and communication between numerous companies. It is also expected that lab availability will become more scare as the deadline approaches. Therefore, it is important that your company plans sufficiently in...
2018- Reach Registration deadline is closer than you think!
The third REACH Registration of chemicals deadline will be Friday May 31st 2018. This follows on from the first and second REACH Registration deadlines in 2010 and 2013, respectively. In 2010 and 2013, REACH deadlines were for chemicals manufactured within the EU or else imported into the EU in quantities greater than 1000 metric Tonnes...
REACH Breach Consequences; enforcement and withdrawals
The REACH legislation has now been in place since 2006, and as phased implementation has been progressing over the past 8 years, the consequences for actors that do not comply with the legislation have become more obvious. REACH is enforced in each European Member State by the Competent Authority for that state. Thus far, there...
REACH Registrations: By the numbers
Reach Registration In the early days of REACH, it was estimated that 100,000 unique chemical substances were in use in the EU. Of these, 30,000 are placed on the market in more than one tonne per annum and so would be expected to require registration by 2018. To spread the workload on industry and authorities,...
First conclusions of the Member States Committee on the Community Rolling Action Plan (CORAP).
The community rolling action plan (CoRAP) specifies substances for which there are suspicions surrounding the potential for their manufacture and/or usage to pose a risk to human health or to the environment. The current list of substances are to be evaluated over a three year period. The first CoRAP lists 90 substances that will be...
2018 REACH Registration News Update
Registration News Some Consortia for distillate and petroleum type liquids plan on beginning preparations for 2018 REACH Registrations by surveying Registrants about their 2018 Registration intentions. Such a survey is likely to go out in Q1 2014. A 2018 licence fee will be based on the results of this survey, and the fee will cover...
Two thirds of Downstream Users not compliant with REACH and CLP
Over two-thirds of downstream users (EU-based importers) are not compliant with REACH and CLP, inspectors from ECHA’s Enforcement Forum have found. Of the 1,181 companies inspected, 67% did not comply with one or more provisions of these pieces of legislation. Non-compliance was most commonly related to contraventions of REACH pre-registration obligations (8%), the notification process...
REACH Registration Complete for 2013
The second REACH Registration of chemicals deadline took place last Friday May 31st 2013. This follows on from the first REACH Registration deadline in 2010 – which was for chemicals manufactured within the EU or else imported into the EU in quantities greater than 1000 metric Tonnes Per Annum (TPA). There are now...