General information on REACH
Please find below facts concerning REACH, as well as interesting documents related to REACH.
Facts & Figures
Facts & figures: For interesting facts on REACH, related to numbers that are used in documents with regard to REACH, please read here.
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| 316,000,000,000 | € annual turnover of EU chemical industry |
| 50,000,000,000 | € benefits for human health and environment over a 30-year period thanks to REACH |
| 2,300,000,000 | € the Commission's estimate of REACH related costs for the industry |
| 400,000,000 | tons of chemicals produced every year in the EU |
| 2,681,000 | € maximum costs for evaluation of HPV and CMR substances |
| 1,700,000 | people directly employed by the EU chemical industry |
| 140,000 | REACH registration dossiers by EU manufacturers & importers |
| 100,000 | chemical substances in the EU |
| 40,000 | chemical producers in the EU |
| 30,000 | chemical substances subject to registration under REACH |
| 9,000 | chemical substances subject to evaluation under REACH |
| 2,700 | chemical substances subject to authorization under REACH |
| 2,018 | year in which REACH will by fully operational |
| 1,400 | CMR substances in EU |
| 1,300 | pages of REACH text including annexes |
| 700 | purchased chemicals by SABIC Europe |
| 300 | chemicals directives in former EU legislation |
| 65 | substances in the scope of the SABIC REACH program |
| 40 | EU directives will be replaced by REACH |
| 34 | % of global chemical output is produced by EU 25 |
| 25 | Member States in the European Union of 2006 |
| 11 | years before full implementation of REACH |
Abbreviations
Abbreviations: In all that is written on the REACH legislation, many abbreviations are applied. To get acquainted with the terminology utilized, please read
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| Abbreviation | Explanation |
|---|---|
| APPE | The Association of Petrochemicals Producers in Europe |
| AISE | International Association for Soaps, Detergents and Maintenance Products. See www.aise-net.org |
| BEUC | European Consumers Organisation ( Bureau EUropeen des Consommateurs |
| BOM | Bill of Material |
| C&L | Classification & Labeling |
| CA | Competent Authorities |
| CAS | Chemical Abtracts Service. See www.cas.org. |
| CAS RN | Chemical Absracts Service Registry Number |
| CBI | Confidential Business Information |
| CEFIC | Conseil Européen de l'Industrie Chimique |
| CIA | Chemical Industries Association (UK) |
| CMR | Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or Reproductively Toxic |
| COM | (European) Commision |
| CONCAWE | CONservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe |
| CPR | Chemicals Policy Review |
| CRM | Customer Relationship Management |
| CSA | Chemical Safety Assessment |
| CSR | Chemical Safety Report |
| DG | Directorate General |
| DNEL | Derived No-Effect Levels |
| DSD | Dangerous Substamnce Directive |
| DU | Downstream User |
| EBW | Exposure Based Waiving |
| EC | European Commission |
| ECHA | European CHemicals Agency |
| ECB | European Chemicals Bureau |
| ECETOC | European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals |
| ECRN | European Chemical Regions Network |
| EHS | Environment, Health and Safety |
| EIF | Entry into Force |
| EINECS | European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances |
| ELINCS | European List of Notified Chemical Substances |
| ENVI | Environment Committee |
| EP | European Parliament |
| EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
| EPAA | The European Partnership for Alternative Approaches to Animal testing |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ES | Exposure Scenarios |
| ESIS | European Substances Information System |
| EU | European Union |
| EUPC | The European Plastics Convertors Association |
| GC | Gas Chromatography |
| GHS | Globally Harmonised System |
| GLP | Good Laboratory Practice |
| HEDSET | Harmonized Electronic Data-set |
| HERA | Human and Environmental Risk Assessment on ingredients of household cleaning products |
| HPLC | High performance Liquid Chromatography |
| HPV | High Production Volume |
| HSE | Health, Safety and Environment |
| ICCA | International Council of Chemical Associations |
| IMCO | Internal Market and Consumer protection Committee |
| INCI | International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization. See www.iso.org. |
| IT | Information Technology |
| ITRE | Commission on Industry, external Trade, Research and Energy |
| IUBMB | International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
| IUCLID | International Uniform Chemical Information Database |
| IUPAC | International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry |
| JRC | Joint Research Center |
| LOSG | Lower Olefins Sector Group |
| LPV | Low Production Volume |
| M/I | Manufacturers / Importers |
| MS | Member States |
| MSDS | Material Safety Data Sheet |
| MSCA | Member State Competent Authorities |
| NCD | New Chemicals Data |
| NGO | Non Governmental Organisation |
| NLP | No Longer Polymer List |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development |
| OH | Occupational Health |
| OSOR | One Substance One Registration |
| PBT | Persistent Bio-accumulative and Toxic |
| PNEC | Predicted No-Effect Concentration |
| POP | Persistent Organic Pollutants |
| ppm | parts per million |
| PPORD | Product and Process Oriented Research and Development |
| PPP | Plant Protection Products |
| PRW | Plastic & Rubber Weekly |
| QSAR | Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship |
| RAR | Risk Assessment Report |
| R&D | Research & Development |
| REACH | Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of CHemicals |
| REIF | REACH enters into force |
| RIP | REACH Implementation Project |
| RMM | Risk Measure Management |
| RP | Rolling Plans |
| RRSM-LWG | Risk Reduction Strategy Meeting / Low Concentrations Working Group |
| SDS | Safety Data Sheet |
| SEA | Socio-Economic Analysis |
| SEG | Stakeholder Export Groups |
| SIA | Substance In Articles |
| SIAM | SIDS Initial Assessment Meeting |
| SIDS | Screening Information Data-set |
| SIEF | Substances Information and Evaluation Forum |
| SME | Small and Medium sized Enterprises |
| SMILES | Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification |
| SNIF | Structered Notification Interchange Forum |
| SPORT | Strategic Partnership On REACH Testing |
| SQL | Standard Query Language |
| SVHC | Substances of Very High Concern |
| T/a | Tons per annum |
| TGD | Technical Guidance Document |
| TRIP | Trade Related-Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights |
| TSCA | Toxic Substance Control Act (USA) |
| UV/VIS | Ultra Violet/Visible |
| UVCB | Substances of Unknown or Variable Composition, Complex reaction products or Biological materials |
| VAS | Vertebrate Animal Study |
| VCI | Verband der Chemischen Industrie e.V. |
| vPvB | very Persistent very Bio-accumulative |
| WF | Work Flow |
| WG | Working Group |
| w/w | Abbreviation for "by weight" |
