ECHA Begins Project to Assess and Encourage Compliance with Legal Obligations under REACH
The ECHA has begun a project to look at the issues surrounding enforcement of regulatory obligations concerning SVHC under REACH. In addition, the project hopes to raise awareness and encourage compliance.
- (1888PressRelease) December 21, 2017 - The ECHA has presented to the world its new pilot project to determine the reason for and levels of non-compliance with REACH’s notification and communication obligations for substances in articles. Begun in October 2017, the ECHA hopes the project with raise awareness of these obligations among distributors, manufacturers and importers of consumer articles.
The announcement of the project follows the relatively low response levels for notifications to ECHA, as well as reports from national enforcement agencies and NGOs. These indicate that the consumer product sector is very slow to meet its obligations under REACH concerning the Candidate List for Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC).
The project has five main objectives:
1. Checking the compliance of producers, importers and suppliers of articles with their notification and communication obligations (Articles 7 and 33 of the REACH Regulation)
2. Raising awareness and improving the understanding of legal obligations, and raising the overall level of compliance among those to which the SVHC requirements apply
3. Creating a more accurate estimate of the current levels of compliance
4. Identifying the reasons behind non-compliance instances to ascertain whether further action by ECHA, the Commission or Member States authorities is needed
5. Gathering experience and identifying enforcement methods that could potentially work on a larger scale in the future
The project will consist of on-site and/or desktop inspections, questionnaires, sample-taking and chemical analyses. These began in October 2017 and are expected to end in June 2018, with a final report being published in November 2018.
The project will target manufacturers, importers and distributors (including e-commerce) of articles that are likely to contain SVHC to which consumers might be exposed. These include consumer and electrical products, building materials and interior articles. The project with focus on a number of SVHCs, including:
• Brominated flame retardants
• Phosphorous flame retardants
• Short-chain chloroparaffins
• Phthalates
• Aprotic polar solvents
• Perfluorinated substances
• Phenolic benzotriazoles
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