EU chemicals regulations impact on North American businesses that make or export chemicals or manufactured goods (Articles) to the EU. Do you know what this means for your business? How can you ensure that your business is compliant and maintain your international supply chain? Come to this workshop to find out! Delivered in a series of locations across the US, attending one of our workshops is sure to get you on the right track.

REACHReady, Tetra Tech and H2 Compliance have joined forces to help North American companies understand and successfully navigate the E.U.’s REACH requirements. In an informative, cost-effective day session you’ll get a clear overview of the key elements of this groundbreaking regulation.

What you will learn:

• An overview of the REACH regulation - what does REACH mean for North American companies

Attendees can then either concentrate their learning on:

• Articles - finished goods and SVHCs (Substances of Very High Concern), or
• Chemicals - export of chemical substances to the EU and the practical requirements of REACH registration and the classification requirements of CLP (Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regualtion)

During these sessions attendees will find out:

Articles

• What is an "Article" and what are the requirements for placing Articles on the EU market
• How we can avoid supply chain disruptions due to SVHCs disappearing from the market and answers to:
  • If we are a North American-based company do we REALLY need to survey our suppliers for SVHCs in articles and do we REALLY need to report SVHCs to our customers?
  • If so, should we track only existing SVHCs or do full disclosures of all chemicals?
• How we should protect confidential information and how we should write these requirements into supplier terms and conditions
• How to track / manage all this data when the SVHC list changes
• Some software and database approaches you can take for managing SVHC data
• What the future holds for SVHCs and The Candidate List in 2012 and 2013

Chemicals

• What is REACH registration and what subtances it covers
• The different registration dossier types and their application, costs and timing
• How to work in SIEFs and Consortia to meet the 2013 deadline
• What an Only Representative can do
• An overview of the dossier completion and submission process
• How REACH affects the structure and content of the EU SDS
• How the GHS has been implemented in the EU as the EU CLP regulations
• When substances need to be reclassified for supply
• What notification to the CLP inventory is all about and how to do it

As well as hearing from our experts this will be a great opportunity to network and share experiences with others.