Abstract

REACH registration is required for all substances manufactured in EU or imported into EU in quantities of one tonne or more per year. This includes substances on their own, in mixtures or substances in articles when they are intended to be released under normal conditions of use. The last deadline to register existing chemicals is approaching (31 May 2018). In order to have an overview of how companies involved in the Detergency field are preparing, we got in touch with some of them and investigated how the registration is going on and what their main challenges are.

A SIGNIFICANT REGULATORY BURDEN

ENNIO ROMANÒ 
President of the Auxiliary Group for Detergency and Surfactants in Federchimica
AISPEC

Generally, the member companies that are part of the detergent Sector Group of  Federchimica - AISPEC are prepared to the last REACH registration deadline. The main substances interested by the sector, due to the high volumes, have been already registered. However there are still very niche products, that due to relative low volumes fall in the last deadline, and likely all will not be registered. It is difficult to estimate a number of those to be registered but it is reasonable to guess about 15-30 per company. The well-structured multinational companies, already involved in previous registration deadlines, do not have significant impacts at national level because everything is managed by a central level (i.e. taking decision to maintain or not the actual p ...