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Registration: manufacturers and companies which import more than one tonne of chemical substances a year must register with the European Chemicals Agency.
Evaluation: the ECHA will check that proposals comply with the regulation and co-ordinate investigations into substances of concern.
Authorisation: companies will need to get authorisation for substances of very high concern and demonstrate that they can control the risks and that the social and economic benefits outweigh the risks.
Chemicals: the regulation covers 30,000 substances. It also applies to preparations (a mixture of two or more substances) or articles (finished products, such as hi-fis and cars). But waste, radioactive material and polymers are excluded.
Restriction: the EU can ban or impose restrictions on the manufacture, sale or use of substances deemed to be unacceptable risks to people or the environment.
Enforcement: member states can fine companies that flout the rules.
Alphabet soup – know your ‘substances of very high concern'
PBT: substances that are persistent (difficult to break down), bio-accumulative and toxic.
vPvB: substances that are very persistent and very bio-accumulative.
CMRs: substances that are carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic (toxic to reproduction).
A full list of substances of very high concern will be published in June 2009.
1 June 2007
REACH came into force and European Chemicals Agency opened.
1 June – 1 December 2008
Pre-registration: companies manufacturing or importing more than one tonne of any chemical substance should pre-register at the ECHA. Failure to pre-register means they cannot continue to use this substance until they have submitted a full registration dossier.
30 November 2010
Registration deadline for manufacturers and importers who use more than one tonne or more of CMR substances, or more than 100 tonnes of substances that are very toxic to the aquatic environment, or more than 1,000 tonnes of other substances.
31 May 2013
Registration deadline for substances manufactured or imported in quantities of more than 100 tonnes per year.
31 May 2018
Registration deadline for substances manufactured or imported in quantities of more than 1 tonne per year.
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