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Corporate Social Responsibility (IVOR nr. 77) 2010/8.2.2
8.2.2 Registration deadlines
Mr. T.E. Lambooy, datum 17-11-2010
- Datum
17-11-2010
- Auteur
Mr. T.E. Lambooy
- JCDI
JCDI:ADS364576:1
- Vakgebied(en)
Ondernemingsrecht (V)
Voetnoten
Voetnoten
Strategies for enforcement of Regulation (EC) no. 1907/2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), 2009, Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement, 2-4 December 2008, at: http://echa.europa.eu/doc/about/organisation/forum/strategies_enforcement_reach.pdf, accessed on 24 June 2010.
ECHA, Pre-register to Benefit from Extended Deadlines, at: http://echa.europa.eu/sief/pre-registration_en.asp, accessed on 24 June 2010.
ECHA, Guidance on Data Sharing, September 2007, at: http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/docs/guidance_document/data_sharing_en.htm, accessed on 24 June 2010.
Registration deadlines will be gradually implemented through a phase-by-phase approach that will extend beyond 2020.1 The obligation to /ire-register applied from 1 June 2008.2 Basic information about the substances has to be submitted to ECHA, i.e. the 'pre-registration procedure'.3 This procedure allows chemicals to be used in the market before they are fully registered, but only until such point in time that registration deadlines will have lapsed. Deadlines vary depending on the type of chemicals and the quantities imported or in use:
substances classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction, or substances that are categorised as very toxic to aquatic organisms and may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment (as stated in Directive 67/548/EEC), can only be used without full registration until 30 November 2010;
other substances, i.e. not classified, manufactured or imported in quantities starting from 100 tonnes or more per year, can only be used without full registration until 31 May 2013;
finally, unclassified substances manufactured or imported in quantities of 1 tonne or more per year are allowed to be used, if pre-registered, until 31 May 2018.4
The full registration procedure requires that the manufacturers and importers of substances submit a registration to ECHA for each substance manufactured or imported in quantities of 1 tonne or more per year.5 The failure to do so before the applicable deadline will result in a prohibition on manufacturing or importing such substance. The main rule of is "no data, no market".6