REACHing out to you...

As you may or may not be aware some new legislation has been passed which supersedes about 40 other pieces of legislation that covered the dark and dangerous world of regulation. More specifically:

Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. It entered into force on 1st June 2007 to streamline and improve the former legislative framework on chemicals of the European Union (EU). REACH places greater responsibility on industry to manage the risks that chemicals may pose to the health and the environment.
In principle REACH applies to all chemicals: not only chemicals used in industrial processes but also in our day-to-day life, for example in cleaning products, paints as well as in articles such as clothes, furniture and electrical appliances.

Now I'm not mucking about here because this is serious stuff. However you may view this legislation B.E.C Group. is taking it very seriously. We have designated a specific REACH single point contact to deal with all customer and supplier enquiries or question. This is unusual for a company of our size but demonstrates our commitment to making this massive piece of new legislations implementation as smooth and as hassle free for our customers as possible.

To this end we have posted a statement to all our customer and I'm happy to announce we have now received assurances from all our suppliers that we will be compliant.

See below and if you have any questions regarding this or any other matter please call Mark Elvy on 01425613131 or email mark.elvy@becgroup.com or if you would like more general information click the title link.




REACH Statement 25th November 2008

B.E.C Group. understands its’ role and responsibilities in respect of REACH and is dedicated to helping its customer achieve a smooth transition to this new legislation.

As your preferred manufacturing partner we will only be concerned with the Supply of Articles, “An article is the legal term under REACH for any object that has been given a specific shape, surface or design so that it can be used for a specific purpose”,

To this end B.E.C Group. can confirm that there will be no interruptions to the supply chain. We have contacted all our suppliers asking them to confirm they will be pre-registering any product that is imported outside the E.U. We are pleased to say that as yet we have 89% confirmation and are just awaiting a few suppliers who are downstream users and are awaiting confirmation themselves.

We can confirm that no substances used by us are of very high concern (SVHC).

We can confirm Polymers are to be exempt from pre-registration and that any articles supplied with greater than 0.1% of a substance of concern will be communicated to you before 1st January 2009.