Subject: Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)

 

Dates

1.07.2007.	REACH Legislation came into force
1.07.2008.	Pre-registration of chemicals begins (for existing phase in substances )
1.12. 2008.	Pre-registration ends (for existing phase in substances)
30.11.2010.	Registration deadline for substances in quantities >1000 MT / year and certain substances of very high concern
31.03 2013.	Registration deadline for substances in quantities >100 MT / year
31.03. 2018.	Registration deadline for substances in quantities > 1 MT / year

 

REACH obligation

REACH demands that any chemical substance produced or imported into the EU market in quantities of 1 tonne or more per year must pass under the scrutiny of the specic requirements detailed in the legislation. The responsibility for compliance lies with any company responsible for manufacturing, importing, using or placing a substance, preparation or article on the EU market. This includes suppliers, distributors, downstream users and retailers. The whole supply chain is involved in communication along the supply chain and according to your position in the chain, your responsibilities will vary.

 

MURAPLAST obligation

Regarding the REACH MURAPLAST d.o.o. is strictly downstream user. In its products MURAPLAST uses 4 general types of raw material: polymers, additives, masterbatch and inks. Additives, masterbatch and inks are strictly imported from EU countries. Polymers are imported from EU and from non EU countries. The polymers manufacturers from non EU countries are exporting their products to EU market and they have satisfied the REACH obligation. Since MURAPLAST cannot preregister or register its products our obligation is to make sure that all components (raw materials and their components) in our products are preregistered or registered. Without the preregistration or registration of the components in our products our products won’t be exported to EU market.

 

Our statement

We declare that all our raw materials (polymers, additives, masterbatch and inks) in our products (PE films, bags and sacks) that are exported to the EU Market are preregistered by our suppliers. If required we can forward theirs statements.

We declare that no Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) are intentionally used as a raw material (polymers, additives, masterbatch and inks) in the process of manufacturing of PE films, bags and sacks.

It is our obligation to inform you if any of the substances we use will be classified as a SVHC in future.

Update

This document is available online on the web page http://www.muraplast.com/reach.htm and will be updated as REACH develops.

For all questions concerning REACH Directive we are available at the email: davor@muraplast.com

Last update was on the 15th December 2008.

 

In name of MURAPLAST,

Davor Ujlaki /development manager