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REACH REGULATION AND ITS INFLUENCE ON BUSINESS ACTIVITIES

Zlata Pavlinić ; INA d.d., Zagreb, Hrvatska
Dragica Ličko ; INA d.d., Zagreb, Hrvatska
Josipa Grubić-Đođo ; INA d.d., Zagreb, Hrvatska

Sažetak

Legislative changes in the Republic of Croatia in the field of chemicals management are taking place in the atmosphere of a new strategy for managing chemicals on the European Union level, which has the two most important objectives: to improve protection of human health and the environment from the risks of chemicals, and simultaneously to increase competitiveness and innovativeness in chemicals industry. REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) (EC 1907/2006) [1] stands for the new European regulations on registration, evaluation, authorisation, and restriction of using chemicals marketed in the EU Member States, which entered into force on 1 June 2007.
The Regulation provides a comprehensive flow of information on the risks regarding particular substances (on their own, in preparations and in articles) from the production to a consumer, and it has been adopted after many years of communication between the representatives of industry and environmental protection organisations. It is assumed that more than 30,000 chemicals will pass through the process of registration, evaluation, authorisation, and restriction.
According to this Regulation, the companies that produce, use, or export hazardous chemicals bear the responsibility for evaluating and managing the risks involving human health and the environment, which means that the industry has to take over the costs of procuring the prescribed data on the substances and measures to be taken for the efficient risk management, while authorities are focussed on the Regulation implementation control. The central coordination body supervising the REACH system implementation is the European Agency for Chemicals, in Helsinki.
The Croatian companies exporting their products to the EU market are under obligation to comply with the REACH Regulation regardless of the fact that Croatia is not a member of the EU. Obligations commence already on 1 June 2008 when the pre-registration of chemicals began at the European Agency for Chemicals. Confronted with the new European trends in the field of chemicals management and changes in Croatian legislation, INA as a manufacturer of oil, gas, and oil products, an exporter of certain products to the European market and a user of chemicals, is preparing for a gradual harmonisation with the REACH system, using advantages from its membership in CONCAWE (European organisation of oil companies for the environment, health, and safety) and the experience of major companies in the field of REACH Regulation implementation.

Ključne riječi

legislative and administrative measures concerning chemical products; chemical marketing; registers; dangerous goods; European Union; Croatia; period 2006-2010 y

Hrčak ID:

36226

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/36226

Datum izdavanja:

30.3.2009.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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