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On 4 June 2025, the UK Government published an interim position statement detailing how the concepts of persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT), and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances will be used to support risk management under UK REACH.

  The UK will exit the transition period on December 31, 2020.  From 2021, the EU REACH Regulation will be brought into UK law under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and this chemical regulation is also known as UK REACH. REACH, and

With Brexit being implemented, The UK has formally left the EU on 31st January 2020 with a withdrawal deal and has now gone into an 11-month transition period which is most likely to end on 31st December 2020. The negotiations between the UK and the

With Brexit being implemented from 31st January 2020, the UK has formally left the EU with a withdrawal deal and it is currently into an 11-month transition period. The UK and the EU have ruled out the possibility to extend the transition period beyo

Brexit being implemented from 31st January 2020, the UK has formally left the EU with a withdrawal deal and it is currently in transition period up to 31st Dec. 2020. The UK and the EU have ruled out the possibility of extending the transition period

me span for the companies to comply. UK-REACH and the UK-REACH IT system ‘Comply wi

With Brexit being implemented from 31st January 2020, the UK has formally left the EU with a withdrawal deal and it is currently into an 11-month transition period. The UK is no longer a member state of the EU and until the end of the transition pe

Following the end of the Brexit transition period on 1st January 2021, the UK REACH Regulation is now in force. UK REACH, which has been described as mirroring its EU counterpart, applies instead of EU REACH in respect of Great Britain (England,

Grandfathering is a transitional arrangement under UK REACH that allows GB-based manufacturers and importers of a substance registered under EU REACH to continue to import or manufacture that substance in Great Britain past the end of th

' In an email exchange with GPC dated April 2nd, 2021, HSE provided a much-welcomed clarification regarding the requirements that non-GB manufacturers must meet in order to qualify for DUIN. In their email, HSE stated that DUIN is only availabl

In a private communication with GPC, UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) provided some clarification on the UK REACH compliance procedures currently available for importers and manufacturers. A great number of GB-based importers and non-GB-ba

On 31st August 2021, the United Kingdom’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in charge of implementing UK REACH, published a draft recommendation for the inclusion of two substances into the Authorization List: Dicyclohexyl phthalate (CAS

The 27th October 2021 deadline for submitting a Downstream User Import Notification is approaching fast.   As a reminder, your substances are eligible for DUIN if:  They are registered under EU REACH; and   They were placed on the GB

The deadline to submit a Downstream User Import Notification (DUIN) officially expired on October 27, 2021. However, HSE recently updated its online guidance on UK REACH and announced that DUINs can still be notified, although a clear timeframe was n

In a letter of 9 February 2021, Steve Elliott, Chief Executive of the UK’s Chemical Industries Association called upon the UK government to repeal the UK REACH requirement for duplicate registration datasets. Under the current situation, companies

European Union (EU)  A new Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability was presented by the EU in 2020 as part of the EU Green Deal. This year, there are major implementations that will be made to achieve this strategy as Europe transitions to a toxi

When UK REACH entered into force, all substances included in the EU REACH candidate list were ipso facto (by the fact itself) transferred into the new UK REACH candidate list. As to the substances added to the EU REACH candidate list after UK REAC

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK in March 2022 published guidance for data and information sharing of the same chemical substance. This guidance will help companies and individuals understand their obligations pursua

Consolidated versions of UK REACH and Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) legislation were published, including the incorporation of amendments made to EU regulations covering post-Brexit national laws. The concern about the effectiveness b

In June, the UK’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) published Work Programme 2022/23 detailing the UK REACH activities carried out in the last calendar year and the activities HSE will carry out for the UK REACH operation, together with the Environ