Compliance tools · Environmental, health and safety

EU REACH compliance tool

Regulation (EC) 1907/2006 · European Union · Binding instrument

Name anyone on your staff. The system makes them your compliance person.

A member of your own staff, with no compliance background, reads the training module, answers the interview, and finishes with your EU REACH documentation cited article by article. The knowledge stays in the business.

Every account level runs inside a dedicated Claude account. Anyone can try a toolkit in their own Claude account; compliance work runs in a dedicated one. The Claude Max plan is £90 a month, paid to Anthropic, and is not included in any level.

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EU REACH is Regulation (EC) 1907/2006, a binding instrument in the European Union. Registration and restriction of chemical substances on the EU market.

The free assessment screens for EU REACH when a business manufactures, imports or uses chemicals, or manufactures goods, or imports goods.

Sectors this instrument reaches: chemicals.

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• Your exact position under EU REACH: what is in place, what is missing, and what to do about each gap.
• Documentation with article citations, ready for auditors, insurers, customers and public buyers.
• A trained person inside the business who understands what the regulation requires, and stays.
• A dated record of every section completed, with the reports themselves staying in your own Claude account. The toolkit is carried by an account level, see the plans.
• All of it completed in-house, at your own pace, without booking a single meeting.

Check that EU REACH applies to your business, free →

Does EU REACH apply to my business?

You are caught if you manufacture, import, place on the market or use chemical substances on their own, in preparations or in articles within the Community, or if you produce or import articles (Article 1(2)). Registration attaches to substances manufactured in the Community and to substances imported into the Community. The duty falls on manufacturers, importers, downstream users and distributors established within the Community.

Who does EU REACH apply to?

REACH applies to manufacturers, importers, downstream users and distributors established within the Community, to only representatives of non-Community manufacturers appointed under Article 8, and to producers and importers of articles. An only representative appointed under Article 8(1) complies with all obligations of importers under the Regulation (Article 8(2)).

Does EU REACH apply to a small business?

REACH has no size threshold and no small business exemption. It requires that special account be taken of the potential impact on small and medium-sized enterprises and of the need to avoid discrimination against them (Recital 8), and Member States must run national helpdesks to help companies, in particular SMEs, to comply (Recital 39, Article 124). An SME is defined by reference to the Commission Recommendation of 6 May 2003 (Article 3(36)).

When does EU REACH apply from, and what are the deadlines?

The Regulation entered into force on 1 June 2007 (Article 141(1)), with the central Titles applying from 1 June 2008 (Article 141(2)) and Title VIII and Annex XVII from 1 June 2009 (Article 141(4)). Phase-in registration deadlines were 1 December 2010 (Article 23(1)), 1 June 2013 (Article 23(2)) and 1 June 2018 (Article 23(3)). An appeal against an Agency decision must be filed within three months of notification (Article 92(2)).

What does EU REACH require me to do?

You must register substances before manufacture or placing on the market, since Article 5 prohibits manufacture in the Community or placing on the market of a substance on its own, in a preparation or in an article unless it has been registered where required. Registration requires a technical dossier and, for substances at 10 tonnes or more per year, a chemical safety report (Article 10, Article 14). Multiple registrants of the same substance submit jointly through a lead registrant (Article 11).

What records or documents does EU REACH require me to keep or produce?

A registrant, downstream user, distributor and article supplier must keep the information they use to meet their obligations available for at least ten years after they last manufactured, imported, supplied or used the substance (Article 36(1)). You must compile and transmit safety data sheets under Article 31 and Annex II, and communicate supply chain information where no safety data sheet is required under Articles 32, 34, 35 and 36.

What happens if I do not comply with EU REACH?

Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 sets no fine amounts at EU level. Article 126 requires each Member State to lay down penalties for infringement that are effective, proportionate and dissuasive, so your exposure depends on the national law of each Member State in which you manufacture or place substances on the market. Where a registration is rejected because the registrant fails to complete it within the Agency deadline during the completeness check, the registration fee is not reimbursed (Article 20(2)).

How do I start complying with EU REACH?

The first practical step is to establish whether you are within scope and whether your substance needs registration, because Article 5 prohibits manufacture in the Community or placing on the market of a substance on its own, in a preparation or in an article unless it has been registered where required. The toolkit starts with scope, the registration duty and representatives under Articles 4 to 9, including only representative and third party representative appointments.

Which ComplianceSME account includes the EU REACH toolkit?

The EU REACH agent toolkit is included from the Medium level.

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