REACH is the European Union rules and the Registration, Evaluation, authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REGULATION concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals), was established the European Union, and on June 1, 2007 implementation of Chemicals regulatory system.
This is safety in a chemical production, trade, use of regulatory proposals, laws designed to protect human health and environmental safety, to maintain and enhance the competitiveness of the European chemical industry, and develop the innovative ability of non-toxic harmless compounds, prevent market division, increases the transparency of chemicals used, to promote the animal experiments, the pursuit of sustainable development of the society, etc. REACH directive requires whoever imports and production within the territory of the European chemicals must be through the registration, evaluation, authorization, and restriction, etc. A set of integrated programs, in order to better and more easily identify the chemical composition to achieve the purpose of ensuring the security of the environment and the human body. This instruction mainly has the registration, the appraisal, the authorization, the restriction and so on several big items content. Any commodity must have a registered record of its chemical constituents and state how the manufacturer USES them and the toxicity assessment report. All this information will be fed into a database under construction managed by the European chemicals agency, a new eu agency based in Helsinki, Finland. The agency will assess each file and may take more stringent action if chemicals are found to have an impact on human health or the environment. According to the assessment of several factors, chemicals may be banned or need approval before they can be used.
Unlike the RoHS directive, REACH involves a much wider range of products and manufacturing processes that affect virtually all industries, from mining to textiles and clothing, light industry and electromechanical industries, it said. REACH requires manufacturers to register about 30,000 chemicals in each of their products -- and to measure their potential harm to public health. REACH has developed the idea that society should not introduce new materials, products or technologies if their potential harm is unknown. Electromechanical products have been one of the most important foreign trade in ningbo. As a downstream user of the chemical industry, there is not a single mechatronics trading with Europe
Enterprises may not be restricted by the REACH system. The draft REACH regulations stipulate that producers and importers of chemicals and other tangible products entering the eu market have the following obligations:
(1) to compile and submit detailed reports including test data of each chemical substance contained in the product (i.e., "registration"). In REACH regulations, the registration scope of chemical substances mainly includes:
1. Substances or accessories that exist independently in quantities greater than or equal to 1 ton/year/person;
2. Monomer or other substance in the form of monomericunits or chemical compounds in polymers that have an unregistered content (weight ratio) of more than 2% in the upstream supplier and a total amount of more than 1 ton/year/person;
3. Substances in articles released intentionally in a state of normal or reasonably foreseeable use with a total amount of >1 tons/year/person;
4. A total of > tons/year/person. The chemicals bureau may require registration for substances in articles which are suspected to be released from the goods and which are harmful to human health or the environment.
In REACH regulations, the following substances are exempt from registration:
1. 1 ton of material per year/person
2. Radioactive materials
(1) in the bonded area or in the bonded warehouse for re-export; Or (2) transit
4. Non-separated intermediates
5. Means of transportation of dangerous substances
6. Waste
7. A member state is exempt from defence
Medicine or veterinary medicine
9. Additives, food flavoring agents and animal nutrients in food or feed
10. Substances in annex IV (known to be of low risk)
11. Substance in annex V
12. Re-import the registered substances themselves or substances in their products
13. When a registered substance, product or substance in an article is reprocessed (recovery process)
14. Polymer injection (itself) (but not registered in the upstream suppliers/weight ratio is 2% or higher and a total of 1 ton/year or more in a single unit (monomericunits) or compound (chemically bound substances) form exists in monomer in the polymer or other substances except)
15. Chemicals used only for products or research and development (PPORD) (5+5/10 years)
16. Only used for active ingredients and excipients (co-formulants) in plant protection products (deemed to be registered)
17. Only active ingredients in biocides (deemed to be registered)
18. Substances declared for new chemical substances under directive 79/831/EEC (deemed to be registered)
