Reach opt-out conditions

Registrants are allowed to opt out from the joint submission under specific conditions. The right to opt out does not apply to the data sharing obligations, or to opting out of membership of the SIEF. Any exercise of the opt out must be fully justified in each case as prescribed by the REACH text. the … Read more

Reach: Competition and confidentiality issues

During the exchange of information in REACH SIEFs there may be instances where participants should be particularly careful, especially with not reveal confidential business information (CBI). Companies want to preserve information, particularly when it involves confidential data. In such cases, participants could consider several options, including screening the information that is shared, or granting restricted … Read more

Reach, Enabling Flexibility to the current Processes

One of the big deals we are facing about REACh is the fact that we need to change some business processes to allow the integration of the REACh compliance tools in our customers. We need to trace the path from the existing manual or non-existent processes to the proposed business management we offer with our … Read more

REACh, Communication Center

Part of being Reach compliance is the communications you need to registry and organize. All this work requires you ask initially all these questions: Which kind of communications do I need to perform? Which stakeholders are involved in these communications? How am I go to perform them? How am I go to manage the answers? … Read more

Strategic in SIEFs

Some guidelines about the strategy to follow when working in SIEFs, This is a BA work related with all existing processes. Define the changes on the Processes can be easy, integrate the changes can be hard. Define guidelines, objectives and strategy. Develop communication objectives. Participate in SIEFs. Advise businesses on interaction and key decision on … Read more

Who is against Reach?

As you can imagine, the path to approve REACH legislation has not been easy. Greenpeace report shows how the chemicals industry is fighting to maintain its privilege position in the use chemicals substances without adequate control of the Use, Exposure and waste of them. Stages:1.- Deny the Problem,2.- Create fear over job looses and economic … Read more

Power struggle

As you can imagine, the path to approve REACH legislation has not been easy. This Report of Greenpeace shows how the chemicals industry is fighting to maintain its privilege position in the use chemicals substances without adequate control of the Use, Exposure and waste of them. Some Stages:1.- Deny the Problem,2.- Create fear over job … Read more

Reach, the chemical SOX?

Reach applies to European Union but it really affects globally. You can see in the internet a lot of US companies offering solutions for companies that work/import substances in EU. This phenomenon looks like when some years ago the US government announced the SOX regulation. On that days I was working in a Spanish company … Read more

Being Reach Compliance

Today I had the opportunity to attend session about Reach, a legislation of the European Union for chemical products. After a big amount of readings about this law, this session was more amazing way to learn than read. The good news for me is that now I understand exactly where is located the tiny communications … Read more

Reach, new market!

Sorry about that, all my posts are around the same: Reach, the obsession that overflows my last weeks. With this new regulation one of the things you have to do is create a complex dossier of information with 13 points of different features, tests and scenarios of use that defines a substance. To elaborate this … Read more