All Gold Member articles – Page 2

  • REACHReady Guide

    Guidance on the Chemical Safety Report

    REACH requires the submission of a Chemical Safety Report (CSR) for all substances subject to registration in quantities of 10 tonnes or more per annum per registrant or by downstream users if their uses are not addressed by their supplier. This report forms part of the registration process or ‘registration ...

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    Finding the right Only Representative

    REACH places no obligations on suppliers established outside the EEA, with the responsibility falling to their importing customers. In many cases such importers need support from their suppliers to fulfil their duties, and often the supplier wants to be actively involved to protect their EEA trade under REACH. As such, ...

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    Advice for Joint Registrants on Exposure Scenarios, DNELs and the CSR

    REACHReady’s aim is to help our subscribers help themselves achieve compliance. A plethora of guidance and articles about REACH and CLP can make it all seem more complicated and difficult than it is, so much of what we do is to remove some of the mystery and fear. We want ...

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    Guidance on dossier updates

    This short guide identifies when updates are needed and who needs to submit the additional information.

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    Registration as a member of a joint submission

    A guidance document to help explain what every registrant must do to achieve registration. It was written to support our Registrants workshop, which goes into more detail than this overview.

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    Downloading and Setting up IUCLID 6.3

    IUCLID (International Uniform Chemical Information Database) is the software required when creating a dossier for a registration, CLP or substance in article notifications. Use this simple step by step guide to download and set up IUCLID version 6.3. Download full guidance  

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    Passing on the regulatory role for REACH and CLP in an organisation

    This document offers some advice on how to ensure a smooth handover.

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    Guidance in metals and inorganic substances

    As much of the ECHA guidance is aimed at organic substances, the REACHReady team prepared a concise guidance document to help those of our Gold subscribers who are involved in the registration of metals and inorganic substances.

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    Impact of REACH and recycling and substances recovered from waste

    REACH, the European Union regulation for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, entered into force on 1 June 2007, and has had a major impact on manufacturing supply chains, the recycling and recovery industry being no exception. Recovery businesses are considered to be manufacturers under REACH, and may have ...

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    Notifying Candidate list SVHCs in articles

    Since 1 June 2011 a new REACH obligation has applied affecting many suppliers of articles such as finished goods, spare parts and components. Importers and producers of articles containing Candidate List substances present above 0.1% by weight (w/w) may need to submit a notification dossier to the European Chemicals Agency, ECHA. 

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    The REACHReady template letter pack

    Many of our subscribers have asked us to draft letters they can send to their contacts addressing the key questions about responsibilities under REACH and CLP. You will find a suitable form of words you can use and we have worked hard to make sure that it will fit ...

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    REACH and suppliers of articles

    Although REACH is an EU chemicals’ management regulation it also affects companies who make, and indeed, supply articles. A small number of articles’ producers and importers may have been affected by pre-registration and registration duties where substances were intended to be released during use; reaching much further are the aspects of REACH which regulate chemicals of concern in products.

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    Articles and containers of chemicals

    This short guide has been prepared for those who are manufacturing or importing finished goods, which may be classed as “articles” or containers of chemicals under REACH, and need to know the obligations under REACH.

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    Authorisation and imported articles: dispelling the myths

    With the Authorisation process gaining momentum, many importers of articles and their non-EU suppliers have been asking REACHReady what it means for their business. Common themes have been emerging, so we have prepared this document to help clear up any confusion.

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    Communication of Uses

    This guidance was written to help our Gold subscribers understand about the communication of use scenarios within their supply chains, how the information is used and ways to communicate their uses to their registrant.

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    Downstream Users

    Many Downstream Users (DUs) are concerned about continuity of supply to ensure the stability of their businesses. Our helpdesk receives enquiries from such companies wanting to know what they should be doing to ensure compliance with REACH and in order to protect their business. We have prepared this short guide ...

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    Step-by-step guide to online C&L notification

    We hope that this guidance will help our subscribers to notify their substances directly in REACH-IT. If you don’t need to claim confidentiality on the IUPAC name of your substance, the REACH-IT wizard is perhaps the quickest and easiest method to notify within one month of first placing the substance ...

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    Dealing with CLP notification

    Notification is a new requirement that was introduced by CLP (Articles 39 and 40). The basic obligation applies to EU/EEA legal entities who manufacture and supply, or import, substances (including in some mixtures) after 1 December 2010. They have to notify core information which identifies the substance and its hazard ...

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    Classification of mixtures

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    Since 1 June 2015, substances and mixtures alike must be classified and, where required, labelled in accordance with CLP before they are placed on the market. There was a two-year derogation for mixtures already labelled under the Dangerous Preparations Directive (DPD) and placed on the market by that date, which ...

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    Classification of substances

    Classification: what’s it all about? Classification and labelling of substances has been part of EU law for more years than most of us have worked, and it has gone through many step changes. We are used to the hazard warning labels found on household bleach and some other household chemicals, ...