CSR
Chemical Safety Report, including the chemical safety
assessment of a substance. The CSR covers the risks and the required risk
management measures for the safe use of the substance. A CSR is made for
substances manufactured/imported > 10 tonnes per year.
Downstream User
Any natural or legal person established within
the community, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who uses a
substance, either on its own or in a preparation, in the course of his
industrial or professional activities. A distributor or a consumer is not a
downstream user. A re-importer shall be regarded as a downstream user.
ECHA
European Chemicals Agency based in Helsinki (Finland), in
charge of the management and carrying out of the technical, scientific and
administrative aspects of REACH. http://echa.europa.eu
EINECS
European INventory of Existing Commercial chemical
Substances.
It lists and defines all the chemical substances that were
on the European Community market between January 1, 1971 and September 18,
1981. (Einecs, OJ No C 146A, 15.6.1990).
Importer
Any natural or legal person established within the EU
who is responsible for import.
Manufacturer
Any natural or legal person established within the
Community who manufactures a substance within the Community.
Non-phase-in substances
New substances manufactured or imported
into the EU after June 1st 2008
Phase-in substances
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EINECS substances
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substances manufactured in the EU or in the countries acceding to the EU on
January 1, 1995 or on May 1, 2004 but not placed on the market in the 15 years
before entry into force of REACH (e.g. R & D substances)
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substances which are no longer classed as polymers which were placed on the
market in the EU or in the countries acceding to the EU on January 1, 1995 or
May 1, 2004 before entry into force of REACH
Polymer
A substance consisting of molecules, characterized by
the sequence of one or more types of monomer units and comprising a simple
weight majority of molecules containing at least three monomer units which are
covalently bound to at least one other monomer unit or other reactant and
consisting of less than a simple weight majority of molecules of the same
molecular weight. Such molecules must be distributed over a range of molecular
weights wherein differences in the molecular weight are primarily attributable
to differences in the number of monomer units. In the context of this
definition a "monomer unit" means the reacted form of a monomer in a polymer.
REACH
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction
of CHemicals.
On October 29, 2003, the European Commission adopted a
proposal for a new EU regulatory framework for chemicals, COM (2003) 644.
Under the proposed new system (REACH), enterprises that manufacture or import
more than one ton of a chemical substance per year would be required to
register it in a central database.
RIP
REACH Implementation Project.
Substance
A chemical element and its compounds in the natural
state or obtained by any manufacturing process, including any additive
necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity deriving from the process
used, but excluding any solvent which may be separated without affecting the
stability of the substance or changing its composition.
