List of high concern substances (Directive Decoder)

List of high concern substances

I asked the Health & Safety Executive when we might see the list of high risk substances for REACH.

Their reply:

“The list you appear to be referring to is the so-called 'candidate list' of substances of very high concern. It's possible that this could be published by the European Chemicals Agency (on their website) this year but our expectation is that it will be early next year”.

“A list of those substances of very high concern that are made subject to authorisation will be published as Annex XIV of REACH. This will be a relatively short list, derived from the candidate list, and will be updated at least every 2 years. The Agency must publish the first Annex XIV list by 1 June 2009”.

A while to wait yet then!!

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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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