UK REACH Regulation

REACH, the European Union Regulation (EC 1907/2006) on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals, entered into force on June 1, 2007. Under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018, the EU REACH Regulation was brought into UK law on 1 January 2021 and is now known as UK REACH.

One objective of this regulation is to improve, within the overall framework of sustainable development, the protection of human health and the environment from the risks of chemical substances.

Sharp supports this objective and, under the Sharp Code of Conduct, is taking a proactive approach to compliance with laws and regulations.

According to REACH Article 33 (duty to communicate information on substances in articles), when an article contains a substance from the SVHC (Substances of Very High Concern) Candidate List in a concentration above 0.1% of the weight of the article, suppliers are required to provide the recipients and, upon request, the consumers of that article with information about the SVHC.

The first ‘Candidate List’ of SVHC was published by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) on October 28, 2008, followed by several others since then. To see a full UK candidate list list of SVHC, click here.

To comply with this regulation, Sharp requests all of its suppliers to provide information on SVHCs. 

To date, Sharp’s findings are in the link below: