Dutch REACH authorities clamp down on “mailbox ORs”

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Criminal and administrative sanctions filed against first OR while inspectors look for more

11-Mar-2010
Dutch inspectors are launching a campaign this week to target many REACH “Only Representatives” (OR) that they believe are not suitably qualified to do the job and could be creating substantial business risks for the overseas companies that hired them and downstream EU importers. The Dutch Environment Ministry (VROM) has started a criminal and administrative sanction procedure with one Chinese OR, which submitted a large number of...

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