8 June 2012

From ECHA’s news alert – The six-month deadline for twenty chemical substances that were added to the Candidate List in December 2011 is approaching. ECHA reminds producers and importers of articles containing any of these twenty substances that they need to send their notifications to ECHA by 19 June 2012, provided they fulfil the conditions for the notification requirement in Article 7 of the REACH Regulation.

By Mr. Nathan Chen, Regulatory Affairs Department (International) of REACH24H China

Background:The client is based in Europe and provides raw materials (less than 1 tonne per year) to importers in China. At the moment, they have three substances not listed on the Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances in China (IECSC) 2010 and requested notification services from us.

Problem: The manufacturing process of these substances involves a physical process, and the client believes the substances that are extracted from these naturally occurring substances qualify for exemption.

More adjustments will continue to be implemented upon hazardous chemical related industry in Shanghai

07 June 2012

Last Month, Shanghai held its 10th Party Congress and blueprinted its portfolios upgrading on heavy industries such as steel and petrochemicals, indicated that more adjustments will continue to be implemented upon hazardous chemical related industries.

6 June 2012

In certain cases downstream users need to report to ECHA if their uses of a registered substance are not covered by the exposure scenario provided by their supplier.

05 June 2012

On June 4, 2012, the China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology announced the release of the new draft “Pollution Control Measures on Electronic and Electric products”. The draft will be available for public comment by July 10, 2012.

5 June 2012

China is seeking public views on a draft proposal of its 2002 Work Safety Law amendment. According to the notice published yesterday from the Legislative Affairs Office of China State Council, the revision was made in response to a State Council standing committee meeting held in July last year and the government hopes to receive opinions from all interested social parties before 5 July 2012. The amended draft law has expanded the control span of the legislation, which is characteristic of the addition of metallurgy, rail transportation industries and companies dealing with transport of dangerous goods, and has intensified the punishment and other supervision measures for various violations against the Work Safety Law, including illegitimate production, use, storage and transportation of dangerous goods.

ECHA publishes the first report on the CMR substances registered or notified after the 2010 registration deadline

5 June 2012

From ECHA’s press release – The report “CMR substances from Annex VI of the CLP Regulation which are registered under REACH and/or notified under CLP” is a screening of the information available at the Agency in April 2012. It also presents the first opportunity to take a look at the CMR – carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction – substances which have now been registered and/or notified.

04 June 2012

China Ministry of Transport is now seeking public comments by 17th June for its new draft of “Regulation on Road Transport of Hazardous Goods” in attempt to replace the original regulation on road transport of Hazardous goods, which was issued in 2005.