RoHS Compliance Testing

What is REACH

REACH is the European legislation for REGISTRATION, EVALUATION and AUTHORISATION OF CHEMICALS. Companies have to register chemical substances they produce or import into the EU at the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) to demonstrate that the conventional use of their substances poses no risk to humans and the environment.

Who is affected by REACH

The range of industries that might be affected is extremely wide. Besides Industrial Chemicals also the Agrochemical, Pharmaceutical, and Cosmetics Industry might be affected as well as retailers of finished goods. This information enables the manufacturer and importer to launch chemical products with the information of safe handling whenever the chemical products are meant into the EU market.

Manufacturers and importers of chemicals have to register all chemicals if produced or imported into the EU in an amount of 1 tonne or more per year. Without registration, further use or marketing of the substance is forbidden.

Downstream users are companies, which are using chemicals without producing new chemicals. They are only responsible for registration, if they, in addition to the purchased substances, also synthesize or import their own chemicals. Further, the downstream user has to confirm whether his use of a chemical is already accounted for in the Chemical Safety Report (CSR) of the manufacturer. If not, the user needs to contact the manufacturer and request that his use of the chemical be included in the CSR or prepare a CSR himself.

This applies to manufacturers and importers of chemical mixtures, and to manufacturers and importers of articles (finished goods). The list of SVHC is maintained by ECHA in the form of the so-called SVHC candidate list.

The new update of Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs)

On 25^th June 2020, the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) has released the new Candidate List of SVHCs. With the addition of 4 new substances, the current list of SVHCs contains 209 substances.

Below a table with the last substances included:

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