REGULATIONS
Environmental update
NetRegs.gov.uk provides environmental guidance for small and medium-sized businesses
throughout the UK. In the first of a series of regular contributions, it gives the lowdown on
REACH, duty of care, invasive weeds and environmental management systems.
REACH
What you must do
Regulation - manufacturing, using, selling and importing chemicals
Registration
What is REACH? REACH is the new system for controlling chemicals
If you manufacture or import any chemical substance in quantities
throughout Europe. All businesses need to understand the ways it may
above one tonne per calendar year and the substance is not exempt,
affect them.
you must register it with the European Chemical Agency (ECHA).
If you manufacture, import, distribute, sell or use chemical
If you recover any substances from waste, you may also be required
substances, preparations or articles containing chemicals, you must
to register them with the ECHA.
Pre-registration
comply with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction
REACH pre-registration has now closed, however businesses can
of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation. REACH aims to protect human health
still pre-register after 1 December 2008 if you are manufacturing
and the environment through the control of chemical substances.
or importing more than one tonne per year of a phase-in substance
Most businesses use chemicals in some way and so REACH will
for the first time. Pre-registration may allow you to delay making a
affect them. this covers many business activities including hairdressing,
full registration. Most commonly used chemicals will be phase-in
decorating, cleaning and gardening.
substances. the UK REACH Competent Authority provides a definition of
a phase-in substance in its guidance.
Does REACH apply to your business?
Good practice
REACH covers all chemical substances manufactured in, or imported
businesses affected by the REACH Regulation should keep a list
into, the European Union (EU) in quantities above one tonne per calendar
(inventory) of all the substances your business buys, uses or sells, either
year. If you manufacture, import, distribute or simply use any chemical in preparations or articles. this will help you work out how REACH will
substance, in these quantities, the REACH Regulation will apply. affect your business and what you will need to do to comply.
14 SUStAINAblE SolUtIoNS December/January 2009
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