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REACH

The REACH legislation entered into force on 1st June 2007. Substances in volumes over one ton per year must be neither manufactured nor imported in the EU (even in preparations/mixtures and articles under certain conditions), unless they are registered.

Transitional periods will be granted under the REACH Regulation in order to perform comprehensive registration tasks of the existing chemicals. Depending on substance volumes and certain health and environmental classifications, these transitional periods range from 3.5 to 11 years (Article 23). To be able to benefit from these transitional periods, manufacturers/importers must pre-register a substance. The pre-registration will start on 1st June and will end on 30th November 2008.

It is essential for users of substances to know if suppliers (Manufacturer/Importer) will register the substances they require - to confirm that these substances will be available in the future and their specific uses will be covered by a registration. It is also essential for manufacturers/importers to be informed about downstream applications as well as use and exposure information for the respective substances in order to be able to generate the required chemical safety report covering the identified uses.

Total Petrochemicals is fully aware of these requests and has therefore launched a project team dedicated to the implementation of REACH, insuring our customers that we will comply with the legislation.

Following CEFIC recommendation, Total Petrochemicals is using standard forms that is intended to help purchasers and suppliers in an adequate exchange of information for registration purposes, without overly specific details on uses or product composition - i.e. confidential business information is respected.

You will find below the link towards the questionnaires concerning the pre-registration and registration associated to our products as well as the coordinates of your REACH contact within Total Petrochemicals.

About information of use of our products, we are waiting for the publication of the guidance issued from RIP 3.2, expected on 1st June 2008 and that deals with the way of exchanging data along the supply chain. After this publication from the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency), our professional associations as CEFIC and PlasticsEurope will define a generic approach with establishment of categories of use and exposure scenarios. We will follow this approach and will contact our customers in the best delay.

Do not hesitate to transmit any questions concerning REACH and our products by contacting us directly or through our sales representatives.

» Access the standard questionnaires

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