Request to Provide Information on
Request to Provide Information on
Chemical Substances contained in
Parts/Materials Related with REACH
September 2009
Sharp Corporation
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Contents
1 Outline of REACH
1. Outline of REACH
2 Sh
’ B i P li i
2. Sharp’s Basic Policies
3. Procedures to Respond to Survey
4. Requests
5. Questions and Answers
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Outline of REACH
What is REACH Regulation
REACH is a new EU Regulation on chemicals and their safe use
Registration Evaluation Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals
Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals
(A regulation dealing with Registration, Evaluation, Authorization
and Restriction of Chemicals)
There are obligations of registration/hazardous
There are obligations of registration/hazardous
evaluation on 30,000 substances that are
manufactured in EU or imported to EU.
We cannot use substances of very high concern on
We cannot use substances of very high concern on
bad effect of human and environmental without
Authorization. Some substances of very high
concern are restricted on some uses.
To put REACH Simply,
No data No market
No data, No market.
Data submission is required, for a chemical substance
which will be used, and also which has been used.
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Outline of REACH
Differences Between RoHS and REACH
RoHS Directive
Reach Regulation
g
Aim
to restrict inclusion of
specified substances
to manage chemical
substances
Object
substances
Specified 6 substances
(Restricted substances)
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Chemicals/Preparations:
All substances
- Articles:
Approx. 1,500 item
pp
,
(Within classified as SVHC)
Evaluation of
inclusion state
Analyzable
Difficult to analyze
Regulatory
objective
Restriction of inclusion
Obligation of :
▪
Information discovery
▪
Registration
objective
Registration
▪
Notification
Penalty and
In case of breach,
product recall damage
Charge as penalty
(depends on national law)
y
business risk
product recall, damage
of brand-image
(depends on national law)
Damage of brand image
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