Hazardous substances
New mandatory registration for manufacturers, importers, and users
Whether old or new: In future, manufacturers and traders must report all chemical substances to Helsinki. The pre-registration was free of charge until 2008. Now, manufacturers and dealers are being asked to pay heavy fees.
This particularly affects small and medium-sized companies that process or trade more than one ton of potentially hazardous substances per year; large companies pay up to two million euros in extreme cases. We will help with the inventory, will analyse hazardous substances and will draft the required dossiers. Save time and money and avoid complex procedures with our comprehensive range of services.
Human health and the environment can be adversely affected by manufacture, transport, and use of chemicals.
REACH, the European ordinance on registering, evaluating and approving chemicals was introduced in 2007 for the purpose of adding non-registered chemicals to a database at the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) and evaluating these chemicals' suitability for intended applications in terms of toxicological and eco-toxicological characteristics, for instance.
Manufacturers and importers are responsible for registration, if they are handling chemical substances, preparations or products. But also users must the align the intended category of usage with the category of usage authorised by the manufacturer and, if necessary, register this themselves. The future use of particularly risky substances (approx. 3,000 carcinogenic and mutagenic substances) requires a comprehensive and cost-intensive authorisation process.
The pre-registration deadline expired in December 2008. Currently, the ECHA is preparing to publish the substance list. The registration phase runs between 2010 and 2018 depending on the substance amount and the hazard potential, which is followed by the authorisation.
Which services do we offer?
- We support you in implementing the new REACH chemicals regulations.
- On your behalf, we clarify further necessary actions and review the extensive implementation aids provided for by legislation.
- On your behalf, we research the relevant data and prepare / revise your safety data sheets as well as documents required for the registration file.
- We provide consultancy and support in cooperation with the manufacturer, importer and user.
- We train your company's staff in seminars.
What sets us apart?
We are fully abreast of developments in the REACH process.
Modern analytical facilities at our institute for chemistry and the environment are available for determining physical-chemical data.
Contact:
Our experts are glad to answer your individual questions at any time. Just send us an e-mail by clicking on the contact box (top right).
