Regulatory Newsletter – August 2023

Five months until the industrial-use poison centre notification deadline

Poison centre notification deadline for industrial use products is 1 January 2024,?and it is important to understand what you now need to do if you have been delaying your notifications until this deadline. It is also really important to remember that an industrial mixture is only used in industrial applications, so you may?not be eligible to take advantage?of the reduced submission requirements.

Unsure if your mixture falls under industrial-use??Watch this short video?where we explain what is an industrial-use mixture, difference between full and limited submissions, and how you can become compliant.

The deadlines for consumer and professional-use products have passed, so if you haven't made the notifications for such products in your supply chain, please?contact us?at [email protected] urgently so that we can help you become compliant as soon as possible.

We offer a full poison centre notification service for companies that have an obligation to notify their hazardous mixtures and biocides. You can find more on our poison centre services?here.

Helping you to navigate the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)

With the initial phase of CBAM taking force in October this year, it's crucial to understand how it will affect your business. The first phase requires monitoring and reporting of emissions data related to certain carbon-intensive goods from sectors with the highest?risk of carbon leakage imported into the EU: cement, iron and steel, aluminium, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen.?This scope will increase over time and emssions-linked payments will begin in 2026.?

Ricardo can help your organisation to understand how CBAM will impact your business, how to avoid risks, how to develop the necessary systems and strategies to stay compliant and how to maximise opportunities. Find out more about CBAM support

You can also find more on our entire sustainability support offering for the chemical sector here.

Part of a consortia or a joint dossier registrant? You still have obligations to update your REACH dossiers

The lead dossier contains information regarding classification and labelling, the study summaries for the endpoints relevant for that tonnage band, as well as any testing proposals that are being made. However, a large part of the member dossiers cannot be provided by the lead registrant, and updates provided by the consortia will not cover these points. For these parts of the dossier,?each member is individually responsible for the submission of their own data.?Our REACH experts discussed this in?more detail during our free webinar,?watch here.

Keeping your registration dossiers up to date is a legal obligation under REACH.?By 2027, ECHA aims to have screened all registration dossiers submitted by the 2018 deadline.?If ECHA finds a compliance failure, it could lead to problems with your REACH registration and subsequent market access.

Ricardo's experts will review your dossier to identify and fill data gaps, strengthen justifications for adaptations, and confirm that all appropriate information has been gathered?to reduce the likelihood of ECHA requesting further information.?You can find all our services?here.

Trading chemicals globally? Here is why you need to monitor your regulatory lists continually

The appearance or movement of your chemical substances within global regulatory lists requires organisations to take actions. For example, phasing out a certain substance from your product range, altering its concentration, or introducing specific workers' safety procedures.?Read our full blog?to find out the three key updates that require you to continously monitor the regulatory lists.

Monitoring the various lists can be time-consuming and problematic. Our?horizon scanning tool?can perform a substance inventory check and identify whether your substances appear on any global regulatory lists. It provides the results in a clear, easy-to-read report, where you can quickly determine the most recent status of your substances.??????

You can download a?sample of our horizon scanning and compliance report here?or simply?contact us?if you would like a demo of our tool.

To speak to a member of our team regarding assistance?with regulatory compliance,?emergency response or sustainability, please?contact us at [email protected]?or visit our?website.