REACH

The heart of the Regulation is registration of substances produced, imported or placed on the market in the EU in quantities of over 1 metric ton per year. While new substances have to be registered immediately using a detailed procedure, transition periods have been set for phase-in substances (mainly existing chemicals), providing they were pre-registered by December 1, 2008.

Evonik successfully submitted around 13,600 pre-registrations for nearly 50 legal entities and almost 4,000 substances. To be on the safe side pre-registrations included some critical raw materials. The EU has prescribed a three-step registration procedure with substances to be registered by 2010, 2013 or 2018 depending on volume.

So far Evonik has successfully registered nine substances with the European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki (Finland). At the start of 2009 it became the first producer to register synthetic amorphous silica, i.e. precipitated silica (e.g. ULTRASIL^® and SIPERNAT^®) and fumed silicas (AEROSIL^®). Registration took the form of a joint submission by order of the relevant REACH consortia. As the lead registrant, Evonik has thus paved the way for other chemicals companies in the group to have these substances registered.

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