Prioritization & planning

DSM has chosen to use the REACH prioritization criteria to prioritize the chemicals for the implementation of GPS. REACH is the European regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, that came into force on June 1, 2007. REACH places great responsibility on industry to manage the risks that chemicals may pose to people’s health and the environment.

Prioritization within REACH is based on volume or hazardous properties of a chemical. Three deadlines are applicable.

Date	REACH Criteria
1st of December 2010	carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction (category 1 or 2) & quantity 1 ton or more per year* very toxic to aquatic organisms which may cause long-term adverse effects in the aquatic environment & quantity 100 ton or more per year* quantity 1000 ton or more per year*
1st of June 2013	100 ton or more per year*
1st off June 2018	1 ton or more per year*

* per manufacturer or importer in the European Community

In most cases the risk assessments which are currently being performed under REACH fulfill or even exceed the requirements of GPS. The publication of Product Safety summaries is the final step to make the information gathered within REACH, accessible for the public. The REACH process offers DSM opportunities to harmonize the summaries on Product Stewardship with other manufacturers and importers.

It is the goal of DSM to have the all summary reports publicly available by 2018. By 2012 companies should have completed the risk characterization work and risk management recommendations, as well as having publicly available Product Stewardship summaries on their identified high priority chemicals. For the remaining chemicals Product Stewardship summaries need to be completed by 2018. DSM expects to publish Product Stewardship summaries on approximately 600 substances in accordance with the REACH prioritization criteria. To meet the goals of GPS by 2012 and 2018, approximately 100 product stewardship summaries will be made available by the end of 2011.

Milestones for DSM (number of Product Safety summaries published and percent of total):

December 2011	100	17%
December 2012	150	25%
December 2013	200	33%
December 2014	250	41%
December 2015	300	50%
December 2016	400	66%
December 2017	500	83%
December 2018	600	100%

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