Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals, Registration, evaluation, authorization and Restriction of chemicals, is the European Union's regulation for the preventive management of all chemicals entering its market. It was implemented on June 1, 2007.
Main contents of REACH:
Registration is required for all chemical substances with an annual production or import of more than 1 ton, and chemical safety reports should also be submitted for chemical substances with an annual production or import of more than 10 tons.
2. Evaluation includes archival evaluation and material evaluation. File evaluation is to check the completeness and consistency of the registration files submitted by enterprises. Substance assessment refers to the identification of the risk of harm to human health and the environment of a chemical substance.
3. Authorization authorizes the production and import of chemical substances that have certain dangerous characteristics and have aroused great attention, including CMR, PBT, vPvB, etc.
Restriction The production or import of a substance in the EU if it is considered that the manufacturing, placing on the market or use of a substance or its formulations or products leads to risks to human health and the environment that cannot be adequately controlled.
REACH control objects:
(1) Chemical Substance: chemical elements and their compounds in the natural state (present) or obtained through production processes.
2. Mixture: A mixture or solution consisting of two or more substances.
(3) Article: An object consisting of one or more substances and/or one or more compositions. Having a particular shape, appearance, or design scheme.
REACH has a total of 17 attachments:
Annex I: General provisions for the assessment of substances and preparation of chemical safety reports
Annex II: Guidelines for the preparation of safety information sheets
Annex III: Criteria for the registration of substances in quantities between 1 and 10 tonnes
Annex IV: Substances exempt from registration under Article 2, paragraph 7 a
Annex V: Classes of substances exempt from registration under Article 2, paragraph 7 b
Annex VI: Basic information requirements for registration
Annex VII: Additional information requirements for 1 ton and above
Annex VIII: Additional information requirements for 10 tons and above
Annex IX: Additional information requirements for 100 tons and above
Annex X: Additional information requirements for 1000 tons and above
Annex XII: General provisions for downstream users to evaluate substances and prepare chemical safety reports
Annex XIII: Criteria for the identification of persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances and highly persistent and highly bioaccumulative substances
Annex XIV: List of chemical substances to be licensed
Annex XV: Archives
Annex XVI: socio-economic profit and loss analysis
Annex XVII: Restrictions on the production, sale and use of certain hazardous chemical substances, preparations and articles
