Chemical Testing

REACH

REACH

REACH is an acronym for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation, and Restriction of Chemicals, an EU regulation numbered 1907/2006/EC. It was officially promulgated after being adopted in the final voting of the Council of the European Union on December 18, 2006, and enforced on June 1, 2007.

REACH involves almost all products (except food, drugs and pesticides) sold to the European Union. As a major focus of attention of the REACH regulation, the list of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) has been updated several times since REACH came into force.

If any product classified as "article" is introduced in the EU market containing any SVHC substance with a concentration of > 0.1%, the EU manufacturer or importer should fulfil obligations such as notification and reporting as indicated in the REACH regulations, and shall provide relevant information to consumers within 45 days upon receipt of a consumer advisory; if such substance has a content of > 0.1% and if cumulatively more than 1 tonne/year of such substance is entered the European Union, the EU manufacturer or importer must report to the ECHA before such product is sold on the EU market.

DEKRA can offer you a variety of SVHCs test programmes and comprehensive REACH solutions to help you easily comply with the REACH regulation requirements.

RoHS

WEEE

Revision of the WEEE Directive (2012/19/EU) officially released
The latest revision of the EU WEEE Directive, Directive 2012/19/EU on Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment, was officially published in the official journal of the European Union on July 24, 2012, and entered into force 20 days after its publication.

Important amendments to the Directive are as follows:

Range: extended to all electrical and electronic equipment (EEE)
From August 15, 2018, the new WEEE Directive will reclassify electrical and electronic equipment into 6 categories as shown in Appendix III, and will adopt an open scope (that means the excluded products shall also fall into the scope of the Directive), except for the exclusion application specified in Article 2 (3) and (4) of the Directive. During the transition from August 13, 2012 to August 14, 2018, the standard categories and scope are still the same as the previous Directive 2002/96/EC.
WEEE collection rate targets
All member states must ensure that their producers take the responsibility of collecting waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), and reach the collection rate target of at least 45% starting from 2016. From 2019, the minimum collection rate to be achieved annually shall be 65% of the average weight of EEE placed on the market during these three years in the concerned Member State.
WEEE recovery target: by three phases
(1) Phase 1 (August 13, 2012 to August 14, 2015): within 3 years after the WEEE revision Directive enters into force, the minimum recovery target for 10 types of products shall be different from the old WEEE Directive in two aspects: (A) adding the medical devices material recovery target, that is, the abandoned medical devices material recycling rate and recovery rate must reach the target of 50% and 70%, respectively, after the WEEE revised Directive enters into force; (B) changing the original re-use and recycling rate target into the recycling rate target.

(2) Phase 2 (August 15, 2015 to August 14, 2018): within 3 to 6 years after the WEEE revised Directive enters into force, the minimum recovery target for 10 types of products, except for gas discharge lamps, shall be increased by 5% compared to Phase 1, and the re-use rate shall be included in the regulation.

(3) Phase 3 (from August 15, 2018 onwards): corresponding recovery rate targets shall be set from the time the new product categories specified by the WEEE revised Directive enters into force.

DEKRA offers WEEE product evaluation services.

PAHs

Food Contact Testing

Country	Regulations	Related chemical test items
EU	- EU No. 1935/2004 - EU No. 10/2011	- Overall migration - Specific migration - Peroxide value - Volatile organic component - Extractable heavy metal - Primary aromatic amines - Phthalates - PAHs - PCP - BPA - Formaldehyde release - Metal composition analysis - Sensory test - Others
Germany	LFGB Section 30 & 31 BRF Recommendation, DIN 51032 DIN 10955
France	DGCCRF 2004-64 Arrêté du 25 novembre 1992 Arrêté du 9 novembre 1994 DGCCRF 2006-58
Italy	Italian D.M. 21/03/73
USA	FDA 21 CFR 175 ~ 189 FDA CPG 7117.05 & 06 & 07
Other countries and regions