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Industry Launches REACH Compliance Program for Suppliers
| Quelle: Environ
BATH, ENGLAND--(Marketwire - July 1, 2009) - Ewire -- New Guidance on REACH Requirements
for Substances in Articles
(http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/docs/guidance_document/nutshell_guidance_articles2.pdf)
published last week by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) provides the
backdrop for Philips' new corporate REACH compliance program for all
suppliers to Philips lighting, consumer lifestyle and healthcare
businesses. Starting from August 2009 the REACH Candidate List of
Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) will be updated every six months and
the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) intends to add about 25 substances per
year to the list. Suppliers to Philips need to join BOMcheck, the
substances declarations web database developed by leading environmental
consultants, ENVIRON.
The REACH regulation requires suppliers to inform Philips and other OEMs
whether the parts they supply contain > 0.1% w/w of any of the substances
on this list. The ECHA Guidance confirms that business suppliers are
required to inform their customers "automatically i.e. directly after the
substances are included in the Candidate List." The Guidance also notes
that "whenever standard information from suppliers is not sufficient to
check compliance with REACH, companies have to obtain the necessary
information by pro-active requests in the supply chain."
"Philips has decided not to receive REACH compliance information
individually from each of our suppliers each time a new list is published,"
said Jan-Willem Scheijgrond, Senior Director Environment, Health & Safety
at Philips Corporate. "Instead, we require all of our suppliers to comply
with these REACH obligations by joining BOMcheck -- the centralised,
open-access substances declarations web database."
The ECHA Guidance highlights that, "Supply chain communication is the most
important and effective way of gathering the information needed to identify
compliance obligations under REACH. In this regard, establishing
communication standards for the supply chain is an important task for the
private sector in order to facilitate the implementation of REACH."
BOMcheck provides this communication standard. The industry-wide
initiative is led by the European trade association COCIR (www.cocir.org)
and has been developed by ENVIRON.
For the full release please follow this link:
http://www.ewire.com/display.cfm/Wire_ID/5281