All manufacturers and/or importers and/or downstream users in a supply chain of a substance.
An object which during production is given a special shape, surface or design, which determines its function to a greater degree that does its chemical composition. Examples of articles are a car, a battery and a telephone.
For further details see the ECHA overview on articles.
Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations 2002, also known as CHIP 3. This is the legislation under which chemicals are classified and labelled.
Chemical Safety Assessment. This should address all the identified uses of a substance on its own (including any major impurities and additives), in a preparation and in an article. The assessment shall consider all stages of the life-cycle of the substance resulting from the manufacture and identified uses. The chemical safety assessment shall be based on a comparison of the potential adverse effects of a substance with the known or reasonably foreseeable exposure of man and/or the environment to that substance taking into account implemented and recommended risk management measures and operational conditions.
Chemical Safety Report. A CSR should be completed for all substances subject to registration in quantities of 10 tonnes or more per year per registrant, this is a documentation of the chemical safety assessment (see above).
The authority or authorities or bodies established by the Member States to carry out the obligations arising from the REACH Regulation.
Any natural or legal person established within the community including a retailer, who only stores and places on the market a substance, on its own or in a preparation for third parties.
Any natural or legal person established within the community, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who uses a substance, either on its own or in a preparation, in the course of his industrial or professional activities. A distributor or a consumer is not a downstream user.
European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances, it is a list of all the so called “existing substances”
Existing Substances Regulations
The Agency established for the purposes of managing and in some cases carrying out the technical, scientific and administrative aspects of the REACH Regulation and to ensure consistency at Community level in relation to these aspects. The Agency will be in Helsinki.
The set of conditions, including operational conditions and risk management measures, that describe how the substance is manufactured or used during its life-cycle and how the manufacturer or importer controls, or recommends downstream users to control, exposures of humans and the environment. These exposure scenarios may cover one specific process or use or several processes or uses as appropriate.
The physical introduction into the customs territory.
Any natural or legal person established within the Community who is responsible for import.
The production or extraction of substance in the natural state.
Any natural or legal person established within the community who manufactures a substance within the Community.
A natural person is an individual person or includes self-employed people, sole traders or people in partnerships. A legal person is not a specific individual but something with a legal personality such as limited companies, trusts, charities etc.
A substance that is manufactured solely for the purpose of being transformed into another substance (or synthesis) and is used up within this reaction. This type of intermediate is not intentionally removed from the synthesising equipment (except for sampling). NOTE: this equipment does not include tanks or other vessels in which the substances is stored after manufacture.
A new substance, one not covered by the definition of a phase in substance.
Notification of New Substances Regulations.
A substance manufactured for or used for chemical processing in order to be transformed into another substance, the synthesis of which takes places on the same site which is operated by one or more legal entities.
A substance which meets at least one of the following criteria:
Supplying or making available, whether in return for payment or free of charge, to a third party. Import shall be deemed to be placing on the market.
A mixture or solution composed of two or more substances.
Any scientific development of a product, or the further development of a substance on its own, in preparations or in articles, in the course of which pilot plant or production trials are used to develop the production process and/or to test the fields of application of the substance.
The manufacturer or the importer of a substance or the producer or importer of an article submitting a registration for a substance.
The Safety Data Sheet provides a mechanism for transmitting appropriate safety information on classified substances and preparations, including information from the relevant Chemical Safety Report down the supply chain to the immediate downstream users. The information provided in the Safety Data Sheet shall be consistent with the information in the Chemical Safety Report, where one is required.
Further information on SDSs is available on the ECHA site.
Any scientific experimentation, analysis or chemical research carried out under controlled conditions in a volume less than a tonne a year.
Substance Information Exchange Fora. SIEF participants should include all relevant actors submitting information to the Agency on the same substance.
A chemical element and its compounds in the natural state or obtained by any manufacturing process, including any additive necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity deriving from the process used, but excluding any solvent which may be separated without affecting the stability of the substance or changing its composition.
Any manufacturer, importer or downstream users or distributor placing on the market a substance, on its own, in a preparation or in an article.
A substance manufactured for or used for chemical processing in order to be transformed into another substance, the synthesis of which is transported between or supplied to other sites.