New REACH Regulations

The Government published a press release detailing that businesses which make, sell or distribute chemicals into Great Britain will need to follow the UK’s new domestic chemicals regulations including UK REACH from 1 Jan 2021. The ‘Comply with UK REACH’ system will go live and can be used by business to fulfil their transitional provisions and create new registrations. Businesses will be able to use the Comply with UK REACH IT service to:

• Validate existing GB-held EU registrations (‘Grandfathering’);
• Submit downstream user import notifications (DUIN);
• Submit new substance registrations;
• Submit new product and process orientated research and development (PPORD) notifications.

Detailed UK REACH guidance is also available on the Health and Safety Executive website. The chemicals industry, including companies involved in construction products, employs over 100,000 people across the UK and accounts for over £30 billion of exports each year. 

Further information is also available from the British Plastics Federation.