Recent developments in global regulatory framework in the Chemical Industry

摘要

EU REACH THE EU REACH regulation has taken the centrestage for companies exporting products to Europe since its inception. As per statistics from European Chemical Agency (ECHA), first registration deadline (30 Nov., 2010) for substances exported > 1000 tpa (tonnage per annum) resulted in submission of 25,000+ registrations for approx 4,300 substances to agency. Registrations with Intermediate use only comprised of approx 25% and of the total registrations 19% were submitted by "only representatives". Majority of registrations (94% +) for 2010 deadline were done as joint submission, where a company take the role of lead registrant and submits all data required as per tonnage band with rest of companies becoming member registrants submit the dossiers referring to this data by paying data cost (Letter of access, LoA) except company specific information. Besides the registration, companies submitted more than CLP notifications to the agency.