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Compliance

REACH

Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals.

Overview

The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals regulations (REACH) came into force in the UK on the 1st June 2007. REACH aims to ensure that the risks posed by the use of chemicals are assessed, documented, minimised and communicated, and that unsafe substances are replaced with safe substances.

It places the responsibility for assessing chemicals with manufacturers and importers, under the aegis of the newly created European Chemicals Agency, and tasks users with ensuring that they inform upstream suppliers about the uses of chemicals and pass relevant information downstream to other users.

Registration of Use

Since the regulation requires ‘use’ to be registered, downstream users need to inform suppliers of their substance use and ask for pre-registration details, Safety Data Sheets (SDS) and other information by the end of 2008. Ultimately, if a use has not been registered for a chemical, then it will be against the law to use the chemical in that way.

Important Features

  • REACH applies to ALL chemicals — not only those used in industrial processes, but also those used on a day-to-day basis (furniture, cleaning products, paints, clothing, etc).
  • REACH applies to all businesses within the supply chain.
  • One organisation can have several different roles, and therefore different obligations, under REACH. The terms used in REACH to describe a role may be quite differently interpreted elsewhere.
  • REACH only applies to the chemicals (substances) within products (preparations or articles) — not to the products themselves.
  • A pre-registration window opened on the 1st June 2008. This offered a free and simple way of continuing production and use of certain substances and extended registration deadlines for those substances to 2010–2018. The window closed on 30th November 2008, after which a full registration must take place.
  • Substances, and uses, not complying with REACH will not be able to be traded or used.

Dingbro’s Commitment

Dingbro Ltd are aware of the Regulations and committed to meeting our legal obligations. We have appointed Robert Parfitt as our REACH representative.

He can be contacted by email at robert.parfitt@dingbro.com or by phone on 01224 666528.

Dingbro Ltd are using the automotive industry online communication tool at www.auto-reach.com to manage our communications obligations. Our user name is Dingbro Ltd and you are invited to register on the site and link with us there.