REACH Information
Cologne, 27/05/2009
Statement on “substances of very high concern” (SVHC) according to the REGULATION (EC) No 1907/2006 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of
Dear Sirs,
we thank you for your inquiry concerning information obligations for “substances of very high concern” (SVHC) in our articles according to Art. 33 of the REGULATION (EC) No 1907/2006 and give you the following statement:
According to Art. 33 para. 1 REACH, any supplier of an article is obliged to provide the recipient of the article with sufficient information, available to the supplier, to allow safe use or, as a minimum, name the substance of the SVHC-candidate list (meeting the criteria in Article 57 and identified in accordance with Article 59 para.1) if this substance exceeds a concentration of 0.1 per cent in weight (w/w) of the article.
In applicable cases we will fulfil this obligation, of course, in order to ensure our customer’s accustomed safe handling of our high quality products. We are keeping in close contact with our own suppliers and up to now, we have not received any information about candidate list-SVHCs contained in our products whatsoever. Therefore, we assume that (according to information available to us at this point) our products do not contain any of the candidate list-SVHCs above the concentration limits set forth obliging us to inform recipients. Changes regarding this issue would be advised to you according to laws and regulations.
We will inform you immediately about relevant changes of our products, the supply availability and the quality caused by REACH for the products/ parts within our relationship with your company and will, in the single case, propose appropriate measures for agreement with your company.
If you have further questions concerning REACH in our company do not hesitate to contact our REACH specialist:
Sincerely,
Kohl & Sohn
Rhein. Press- und Ziehwerk GmbH
Hubertus Müller
(Managing Director)