REACH - Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals

REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals) will become a major compliance issue for companies operating in a wide range of sectors beyond Chemicals. Few of these companies are fully prepared for its impact.

Objectives

The aim of this workshop is to give senior in-house lawyers a working knowledge of the EU's proposed Regulation:

• How it is put together.

• How to find a way through it.

Content

The workshop will be interactive and will focus on:

• Introduction

  • The Commission's aims

  • Development of the proposal to date, who the main players in the REACH debates are and how they are shaping its development

  • When the Regulation is likely to come into force, and what companies need to be thinking about now to prepare for REACH's effect.

• Registration
  Practical examples will be used to navigate the Registration obligation for substances with the new European Chemicals Agency.

• Evaluation
  Brief summary of the evaluation provisions in the draft proposed Regulation.

• Authorisation
  Practical exercises to look at the detailed requirements for Authorisation of substances containing more than a certain level of substances of concern – carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic (CMRs).

• REACH terminology
  REACH applies in different ways to substances, preparations and substances in articles. We will take a look at some of the main defined terms and explain why they matter.

• REACH for different parties
  The different obligations applying to Manufacturers, Importers and Downstream Users..

Speakers:
Ross Fairley, Partner, Burges Salmon (Chairman)
Prof David Slater, Cambrensis Ltd – formerly Chief Inspector, HM Inspectorate of Pollution and Director, Environmental Protection, Environment Agency, on the European Commission's aims and objectives with the legislation
William Wilson, Barrister, Burges Salmon on the REACH Proposal

To book a place on this course, please click here. If you have any further queries, please contact Claire Dine on +44 20 7202 1289.