Important REACH Guidance (Directive Decoder)

Important REACH Guidance

As happened with the RoHS Directive, clarification has been sought on how to define the concentration limit featured in the REACH regulations.

REACH requires either informing the authorities or notifying a customer of the presence of a substance in an article (product) under certain circumstances.

Once again the guidance is if the concentration of the substance is greater than 0.1% by weight.

As with the RoHS Directive there has been much debate concerning how this percentage is defined-by homogeneous material is one option as used by RoHS, another is as a proportion of the whole article.

New guidance states the following:

“The substance concentration threshold of 0.1% by weight applies to the article as produced or imported. It does not relate to the homogeneous materials or part of an article, as it may in other legislation, but relates to the article as such (ie as produced or imported)”

This clarifies that the percentage weight applies as a portion of the article.

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Gary Nevison is Farnell's spokesperson and customer interface on legislation that affects the electronics industry, such as the RoHS and WEEE Directives. As part of this, Gary has spoken extensively at RoHS seminars throughout Europe, North America and Australia. He has recently turned his attention to the developments, and impact, of China RoHS.
With over 30 years service at Farnell, he has widespread experience in the electronic components industry, Gary is an active figure in the market place, sitting on the AFDEC (Association of Franchised Distributors of Electronic Components) Council and acting as the elected chairperson for its dedicated RoHS development team.
During 2005, Gary was also chairman of the European organisation DMASS (Distributors and Manufacturers Association of Semiconductor Specialists) and today sits on the board of Electronics Yorkshire, helping local businesses.

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