API GUIDE REACH-2008

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Registration, Evaluation, Authorization (and Restriction) of Chemicals (REACH)

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
API	2008	30

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REACH¹ is the new European Union (EU) legislation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization (and Restriction) of Chemicals, which came into force on June 1, 2007. The regulation sets out new requirements for chemicals and substances manufactured within or imported into the EU to ensure that substances (including refinery streams and substances used to produce them in the EU) can continue to be used. Each substance, along with every identified use, will need to be registered with the newly formed European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). If a use is not registered, then the substance cannot be employed in that application within the EU unless the user takes the responsibility for conducting a risk assessment and ensuring safe use.

The introduction of the legislation has a phased approach, starting this year (2008), through to final submission in 2018. For those in commerce with substances in the higher tonnage bands, the effective first major deadline is 2010.

REACH is the most comprehensive chemicals legislation in the world, and is also likely to become one of the most complicated to comply with—at all levels from the technical to managerial and business challenges. It will also have global implications. Even those not immediately involved in the EU market are in the supply chain of others who are, and will be asked for information and support by those formulators who do, or whose customers decide not to, support substances that are currently exported to the EU.

The newly formed European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will administer REACH. Because the legislation is so complex, the EU Commission, through ECHA, has issued, or will be issuing, guidance in various aspects of the legislation and its implementation. A list of this guidance and a link to the source is given in Appendix 1.

This guide does not seek to replace the official EU guidance, but rather to provide an overview and to highlight the main issues and places to go to for help.

¹ Regulation (EC) No. 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals.

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