REACH - Registration,
Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals
The European Parliament recently
backed a deal, reached with EU governments, on wide-ranging
legislation to control the use of toxic chemicals
in industry and to make companies prove that the chemicals
they manufacture and or use are safe to humans and
the environment.
The Legislation (1907/2006/EC) is commonly referred
to as REACH (Registration, Evaluation,
Authorization of Chemicals).
Substances in volumes over one ton per year must be
neither manufactured nor imported in the EU (even
in preparations/mixtures) unless they are registered.
Common European community understanding is that catalysts
and adsorbents are considered as preparations. As
a consequence, manufacturers and importers are required
to register each substance contained in these preparations
if the yearly volume of such substance is above the
one ton threshold.
The REACH legislation did enter into
force on June 1st, 2007. Depending on substance volumes
and certain health and environmental classification,
transitional periods range from 3.5 to 11 years have
been decided (Art. 23).
As a responsible company, Axens will comply with all
REACH requirements on due time and
for that purpose, we have decided to introduce these
actions into our Management System (ISO 9001/2000
; ISO 14001/2004 ; OHSAS 18001/1999).
In such process, we have gathered below several elements
dedicated to answer to questions our customers will
be conducted to ask:
1. At this stage,
substances requiring registration and contained
in our product will be registered.
2. The timescale
for this registration will be totally in compliance
with the rules from European community, based
on volume and health and environmental classification.
3. The registration
will include customer’s applications in
the “identified uses” as Adsorption.
4. We make our
best efforts to avoid interruption of the supply
of our product.
5. Substances
which would be directly imported from outside
EU by Axens will be treated as requested by REACH.
6. Safety Data
Sheet in compliance with REACH requirements will
be implemented after June 2007 under initial form
and will be made more accurate with new data when
available from tests.
7. Axens responsible
person for REACH Chemicals Policy
Management is Philippe Travers
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