Companies shall submit notifications of certain SVHCs to ECHA no later than 1 June 2011.
ECHA has released IT tools and guidance for SVHC notificaiton this month. Article companies shall submit notifications for certain SVHCs no later than 1 June 2011.
Under REACH, producers and importers of articles (furniture, construction products, clothing etc) have a legal obligation to notify ECHA if any
Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC) included in
the Candidate List is present in their
articles above the threshold of 0.1% weight by weight and if the quantity of such substance in those articles is over 1 tonne per producer/importer per year. For those substances included in the Candidate List by 1 December 2010, the relevant notifications have to be submitted not later than
1 June 2011.
More info about SVHC notification can be found here.
CLP regulation is ammended by (EU) No 286/2011
Commission Regulation (EU) No 286/2011 of 10 March 2011 amending the CLP Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 came into force on 19 April 2011. The ammendment aligns CLP regulation with the third version of UN-GHS. The changes will apply to substances from 1 December 2012 and to mixtures from 1 June 2015.
More info about our CLP regulation can be found here.