The second and final report of REACH’s enforcement project has been published by the European Chemical Agency (ECHA). Focusing on REACH and CLP obligations of downstream users, from a total of 1,181 companies inspected, 67% did not comply with one or more provisions of these legislations. The inspections were carried out in 29 Member States or European Economic Area (EEA) countries.
Considering the essential requirements of EU REACH and CLP regulations, ECHA’s Enforcement Forum focused on checking the compliance of downstream users – particularly formulators of mixtures. This enforcement project helped create harmonisation of enforcement approaches in the Member States and fostered cooperation between inspectors.
Non-compliance was most commonly related to contraventions of (pre-)registration (REACH, 8%), notification (CLP, 15%), failure to keep information (20%) and having deficient risk management measures (12%). Of the 1,181 enterprises inspected, the majority were small to medium-sized companies and were active as downstream users as well as in additional roles, e.g. as manufacturers, importers, distributors and only representatives.
Only 3% of companies failed to have the SDSs on site. However, 52% of the inspected SDSs showed deficiencies.
6,900 substances, 4,500 mixtures and 4,500 safety data sheets (SDSs) were inspected.
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