EU- ECHA Forum summary on inspections linked to REACH and safety data sheets 08.12.2011
ECHA´s Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement of the REACH Regulation EC 1907/2006 has completed the second round of inspections of its first coordinated enforcement project (REF-1) and reveals the results in a facts report . It focuses on the results of 791 inspections on registration obligations and the safety data sheets conducted from May 2010 to April 2011 in 19 countries of the Economic European Area.
Almost 800 companies were inspected and 94% of the inspections were performed to check both the (pre-)registration and provisions of the Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) and 6% of the inspections were limited to the SDS provisions of the project. The inspected companies play different roles under REACH. One company can also play different roles. The inspectors inspected 449 manufacturers, 278 importers, 38 only representatives and 436 downstream users.
In total, the presence of the required SDSs was checked for 1,969 substances and mixtures, in 379 cases the required SDSs were unavailable; 366 SDSs were not in compliance with language and/or format provisions.
The results of the second and final phase of the enforcement project are similar to the results of a first inspection campaign in 2009.
The Forum will publish the full report with conclusions and recommendations for inspectors. This will be made public in due time on the ECHA website.
Access the facts report.
