About REACH

What is REACH?
The EU Regulation, REACH, (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) came into force on 1st June 2007 and aims to improve the protection human health and the environment through the better understanding of hazardous properties of substances. REACH requires EU manufacturers and importers to collect information on the properties of the substances they supply to the EU in quantities of over 1 tonne per year, which will allow their safe handling, and submit that information to the European Chemicals Agency in the form of a registration dossier the deadline for which depends on the annual tonnage and hazard classification. Information submitted at registration will be uploaded onto a public database which will allow users of substances to find hazard information on those substances to help control possible risks.

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No data, no market rule
REACH requires companies, supplying substances in the EU, to register those substances, with a set of information on their properties, with the European Chemicals Agency; the level of data required is proportionate to the amount of substance supplied. Companies who fail to submit the information required at registration, by the required timescales, will lose their EU market for those substances. Continuing to supply a substance in the EU that is not REACH-registered, by the required deadline, will be illegal and companies doing so will be subject to national enforcement.

Scope and exemptions
REACH applies to all substances, whether on their own (including ‘pure’ metals), in preparations (including alloys) or in articles (where the substance will be released under normal conditions of use), supplied to the EU in quantities of more than one tonne, per supplier, per year.

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