Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) service
REACH regulation has come into force since 1st June, 2007 and caused huge impact to different industries. REACH regulation regulates not only chemical substances on it own and individual substances in mixture, with exemption like medicine…, but also different kinds of consumer products.
EU manufacture, importer, and downstream user are major actors who have to comply with REACH regulation. Therefore non-EU supplier needs to support the above-mentioned actors to comply with REACH obligations. Using Article as an example, the following table shows requirements that an article-producer has to comply with:
| scenarios | concentration | ton/year | actions | receiver | effective date | corresp. articles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Article relasing chemical substances | – | > 1 t | Pre-/registration | ECHA | 2008/6/1 | Article 7(1) |
| Article contains SVHC in candidate list | (SVHC)
>0.1% (w/w) 1000 ppm |
> 1 t | SVHC Notification | ECHA | ←2011/6/1→ | Article 7(2) Concentration & Tonnage meet criteia |
| – | providing information of safe use to | Acceptor | 2008/10/28 | Article 33 | ||
| if consumer requests, providing information of safe use within 45 days to | consumer | 2008/10/28 | Article 33 | |||
| Article/ material contains dangerous substances | beyond limit | – | is not allowed to sell, produce, use or place on EU market | 2009/6/1 | Article 67
Annex XVII |
- According to Article 7(1), under reasonable and foresee conditions of use the article relases a chemical substance > 1ton/year. Then a registration for the chemical substance >1ton/year must be implemented.
- According to Article 7(2), the article contains SVHC with a concentration > 0.1%(w/w) and the same SVHC is more than 1 ton/year at the same time, then a SVHC notification must be implemented.
- According to Article 33, the article contains SVHC with a concentration > 0.1% (w/w), no matter whether SVHC is more or less than 1 ton/year, an information of safe use must be provided, for business to business (B2B) the information of safe use has to be provided immediately, for business to consumer (B2C) the information of safe use has to be provided within 45 days when the consumer requests.
- According to Article 67 the product contains the restricted substances listed in REACH annex XVII. The product is not allowed to be manufactured, used and placed on EU market.
- Unless the abovementioned requirements, SCIP Article notification shall be implemented if the article placed on EU market contains SVHC with a concentration > 0.1%(w/w).
SGS has many laboratories and well trained experts around the world and can provide one stop solution to help our clients comply with REACH obligations.