What are my obligations under REACH?

Obtain a list of your obligations by answering questions about the chemicals you handle !

NEWS

Draft guidance on Annex V of REACH sent to the ECHA Forum(12/11/2009)
Revised draft update of the guidance on the Use Descriptor System (Chapter R.12 of the Guidance on IR&CSA) sent to RAC for consultation(12/11/2009)
Draft guidance on Information Requirements and Chemical Safety Assessment, Chapter R16 Environmental Exposure Estimation sent to Partner Expert Group(11/11/2009)

DOCUMENTS

What can you find on this website?

This website assists industry and authorities to understand their obligations under REACH and provides guidance on how to fulfil them. It contains 5 main elements:

About REACH
gives an overview of the processes foreseen by REACH, its scope and the main obligations of the actors involved in REACH
Navigator
is an IT-tool to help industry determine its obligations under REACH
Guidance documents
provides the Guidance Documents on REACH processes and methods, to be used by industry and authorities.
Formats
contains the key templates that industry and authorities can use in the context of REACH (e.g. format for Chemical Safety Report, format for Substance Evaluation Report, formats for Annex XV dossiers)
Legislation
contains different legislative texts related to EU chemicals policy, in particular the REACH Regulation in all official languages of the EU

Some parts of this website are still under construction, especially “Guidance Documents”, and will be regularly updated with new documents as soon as they become available.
Parts of this website are accessible in all languages of the European Community. For the parts which are not translated, the default language used is English.

If you need an overview of REACH, we recommend that you start with "about REACH".

If you are a manufacturer, an importer or a user of chemicals and you are not familiar with REACH you can find out your obligations using the Navigator tool. If you are a manufacturer, an importer or a user of chemicals familiar with your role or obligations under REACH you can access the relevant guidance documents directly.

Disclaimer : This website contains guidance on REACH explaining the REACH obligations and how to fulfil them. However, users are reminded that the text of the REACH Regulation is the only authentic legal reference and that the information in this website does not constitute legal advice. The European Chemicals Agency does not accept any liability with regard to the content of this Website.