EU REACH for Chemical Compliance Professionals

• Introduction to REACH 
• Basics and background
• Different roles and obligations 
• Situation in member states and the EEA
• Consequences of Brexit
  
  
• Registration 
• Starting a registration
• Joining an existing registration 
• The inquiry process 

Marko Sušnik

Advisor to the Secretary General on Chemicals Policy, SMEunited, and Senior Advisor Chemical Policy, Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ), SMEunited / WKÖ

Christian Gründling

Deputy Director, FCIO, Austria

• Special cases like recycled materials, intermediates, polymers and nanomaterials
• Organising yourself and your portfolio 
• Finding your co- and/or lead-registrants
  
  

• Agents in the REACH environment
• Third party representatives 
• Only representatives
• Trustees

• Data-processing 
• Assessing hazard and risk 
• Technical dossier – overview, structure and content
• Data requirements based on Annex VII-XI 
• Defining sameness
• Core elements and practical aspects of a chemical safety analysis (CSA)
• The chemical safety report (CSR) 
• Meaning and handling of the terms “use”, “exposure categories”, and “exposure scenarios”
• Risk assessment principles and basics
• Supporting tools

• Data-sharing 
• The basics and principles of data- and cost-sharing
• “One substance – one registration” principle 
• The role of consortia and substance information exchange fora (Siefs) 
• Aspects of competition law / cost considerations

EXERCISE: Data requirements in practice and available databases

• Evaluation process 
• Evaluating dossiers
• Evaluating testing proposals
• Evaluating substances
• Consequences for your daily business
• Practical considerations