REACH AUTHORISATION

ECHA. Undated. The Candidate List. Available at http //echa.europa.eu/regulations/ reach/authorisation/the-candidate-list (accessed November 10,2013). 

European Commission (2003). Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament Concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). Brussels E.C. 

REACH (2007) Registration, Evaluations and Authorisation of Chemicals, http //ec.europa.eu/... 

However, the cost of simple substitution and shallow innovation can be substantial. The new EU regulations on Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH) are expected to result in a large number of chemicals that are currently freely available to vanish from the market. Formulated commercial products such as inks, adhesives and paints can contain up to 60 individual chemicals in one formulation. If one of these is withdrawn as a result of REACH, the potential costs of reformulation can be very high. 

REACH Registration Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals... 

REACH Registration Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical Substances (European Community Regulation on chemicals and their... 

Furthermore, the EU regularly produces and regularly updates the list of substances of high concern, i.e. the SVHC list. The identification of a substance as a SVHC and its inclusion in the candidate list is the first step of the authorization procedure. The European Chemical Agency in Helsinki identifies from the candidate list priority substances to be included in Annex XIV of REACH (the authorisation list). The substances on the candidate list will most probably be liable to stricter regulation in the future (authorisation/banning) which will stimulate the substitution of these chemicals. Currently in June 2012, there are 84 substances included in the candidate list. Examples of chemicals on the candidate list which may be relevant for the leather industry are phenolphthalein, boric acid, cobalt dichloride, dichromate (although not used by leather industry), phthalates (DEHP, DBP and BBP), acrylamide and short-chain chlorinated paraffins. 

European Commission (2006) Regulation No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals (REACH)... 

Industry is obligated to submit mandatory dossiers to the REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) registry, an environmental protection regulation within the framework of the European Union (EU), and are to include a GHS aquatic hazard classification proposal. Both REACH and the GHS have significant implications for environmental protection... 

The core of the new EU scheme to control chemicals is REACH Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (32, 93). REACH will place a duty on companies that manufacture, import and use chemicals in the EU to assess the risks arising from their use, which will often require safety testing, and manage any risks identified. 

Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals (REACH), European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, May 2003. 

The effect of European REACH legislation, which will cover all chemicals used in the European countries, on the paint industry is discussed and proposals made for a possible solution. REACH is the abbreviation for Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals. A case study involving vehicle refinish paints is described. Recommendations made by the industry for an improved REACH are considered. 

In May 2003 the Directorates General (DGs) Environment and Enterprise jointly published a draft proposal for an EU Regulation to introduce the new REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation of Chemicals) scheme. This article explains in some detail the main themes of the new REACH system. 

In what is being called the most far-reaching overhaul of European Union environmental policy ever, the European Commission released a draft policy proposal on May 7 that, if enacted, would require virtually all manufacturers of chemicals to provide risk assessments and other information regarding products they sell or ship into the EU. Chemicals would also have to be registered with the EC and many downstream users of products that contain chemical entities would have to file paperwork as well. The Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals, or REACH, proposal would apply to approximately 30,000 new and existing chemicals, and test data would have to be developed on some 5000 specific chemical entities, many of which have been commonly used for decades. EUROPEAN COMMISSION... 

This presentation discusses current EU chemical legislation and examines the shortcomings of some of the regulations in place with respect to dangerous chemicals. The Commission White Paper is discussed, and in particular, the REACH system which involves the registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals used in food-contact applications. The impact of the REACH system on food-contact plastic manufacturers is examined, with respect to suppliers of monomers and additives, plastic manufacturers, converters and packagers. 

Cefic claims that polymeric materials, reaction intermediates and substances used for R D should not be subject to the REACH evaluation and authorisation process being proposed by the European Commission in its White Paper on future chemicals policy, it is briefly reported. On specific issues, Cefic wants a risk-based approach to chemicals assessment and regulation realistic deadlines for the REACH process and exemption from REACH of finished articles, so that it applies only to substances marketed as substances or as constituents of a preparation. 

REACH. In 2003 the EU Commission proposed a new chemicals policy -REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorisation of Chemicals). The biocides used in AF products are still registered through the BPD, but the other paint constituents as with all other chemical constituents produced or imported > 1 ton/year on the European market will need to be partly or fully risk assessed under REACH. The legislation is expected to enter into force in 2007 (EU, 2003b). 

Eorthis reason, the Substitution Principle cannot be implemented to its full and necessary effect simply as a general policy statement within the regulatory framework, since this will be an insufficient driver for change. Instead it needs a clear mandatory imperative to drive it. Within REACH, this means that the Substitution Principle needs to be written into the authorisation procedure so that the availability of a safer alternative is sufficient grounds for an authorisation to be refused. 

A safer alternative is one that does not meet the requirements for a substance of very high concern as defined in the authorisation procedure of the REACH proposed regulation. Obviously, every effort must be made to select the least hazardous alternative within this universe of "safer" chemicals. 

A common position statement issued on 25 October 2004, by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), the UK s Chemicals Industry Association (CIA) and Greenpeace recognises the ability of a strong REACH regulation to drive innovation "Weshare the view that a requirement within the authorisation procedure... 

These loopholes In the REACH proposal will effectively mean that even the most hazardous substances could be granted authorisations for continued production, even when safer alternatives are available. Adequate control does not prevent releases Into the environment and the Intrinsic properties of chemicals of very high concern mean these releases will lead to ongoing exposure and continued build up of these chemicals in the environment and in human beings. 

The following case studies focus on chemicals likely to be defined as "substances of very high concern" i.e. that would reguire authorisation underthe REACH system. 

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