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The European Commission is carrying out its own review of the REACH Regulations. and their impact on innovation.

Contributed comments are invited [...]

Experience from 2010 registrants showed that you cannot start preparing for a registration deadline early enough and 2013 is no exception. However, the only public mechanism for assessing the collective progress being made towards the next deadline is when a Lead Registrant has been nominated and when a substance has been [...]

In June 2011 ECHA published its report on the operation of REACH and CLP.  It contains a number of lessons and recommendations, notably that:

severe non-compliance should be punished, 58% of companies identified themselves as SMEs (in a 2010 study),  incomplete and incorrect dossiers are very common, unnecessary animal testing is not being commissioned, SIEFs are not [...]

In future Safety Data Sheets must be “provided” – not merely “made available”.  A UK company offers a service to make MSDS available to your customers.  Under certain conditions there is a free service for low volume MSDS.  Fuller details [...]

CEFIC has made its Responsible Care Toolkit for SMEs available on its website at www.cefic.org/RC-Tools-SMEs  Elements include integrate SHE management, security, occupational health and safety, plant and process safety, transport and logistics, environment, energy efficiency, chemicals regulation and [...]

ECHA has announced it will publish more information from registration dossiers. Following a legal interpretation by the European Commission Services and advice from its Management Board, ECHA will disseminate certain information that is contained in the safety data sheet – which includes the name of the registrant and the registration number.

Registrants of [...]

CIA is trying to establish how many  companies manufacture or use substances registered (or to be registered) as intermediates and whether the changes introduced by the ECHA guidance of December 2010 are affecting them. It is conducting a short survey (at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W9MXFG9). For further information about the changes please contact Silvia [...]

The Technology Strategy Board recently launched a new Grant for Research and Development programme designed specifically for individual small to medium enterprises.

Three types of grant are available – for proof of market projects, proof of concept and development of prototype. Depending on the type of grant, funding levels range from £25,000 [...]

An opportunity to provide input into high level UK-China trade policy discussions.

UK Trade & Investment in collaboration with HM Treasury, China-Britain Business Council (CBBC), CBI and other organisations, is running a market access business consultation in preparation for the Joint Economic Trade Commission (JETC) and Economic and Financial Dialogue (EFD) in 2011 [...]