The REACH Competent Authorities of the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway are currently preparing a REACH Annex XV restriction dossier for the group of PFAS (per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances), as all these substances are considered persistent. They are now seeking further information for the proposed restriction to fill knowledge gaps, particularly regarding alternatives to PFAS.

Companies, associations and other stakeholders can participate in the survey at

All data collected since January 2021 on SVHCs (Substances of Very High Concern listed on the REACH Candidate List) in products manufactured and/or placed on the EU market is now uploaded to the SCIP database. This is due to the European Waste Framework Directive. To find out more, please follow the link here to the SCIP InfoPoint. According to the ECHA, approximately 9 million SCIP notifications have now been successfully submitted by around 4,700 legal entities. But what happens to all the

As of 8 July 2021, there are 219 chemical substances and groups of substances on the REACH Candidate List. This includes the following eight new substances:

• 2-(4-tert-butylbenzyl)propionaldehyde and its individual stereoisomers

• Orthoboric acid, sodium salt

• 2,2-bis(bromomethyl)propane1,3-diol (BMP); 2,2-dimethylpropan-1-ol, tribromo derivative/3-bromo-2,2-bis(bromomethyl)-1-propanol (TBNPA); 2,3-dibromo-1-propanol (2,3-DBPA)

• Glutaral

• Medium-chain chlorinated paraffins

When you have two or more suppliers for the same component (e.g a screw or a capacitor), do you know how to record this in the IMDS? This situation used to cause a problem, but a new solution has been incorporated in IMDS Release 13.0 called multisourcing.

Electrical and electronic (E/E) products are often made from a wide range of different components from different suppliers. Until recently, these different suppliers could not be recorded in the IMDS. However, this has recently become a

REC019 has now been deactivated in IMDS Release 13.0. Until this point ZVEI data sheets could easily be used to report printed circuit boards (PCBs) as a generic mixed material. We have already highlighted this issue in some of our other posts and are going to take a closer look at the impact of the deactivation here.

In order to comply with REACH and especially following the ruling on case o5a (Once an article – Always an article), it is critical that individual PCB parts are reported in the