REACH is a new European Community Regulation on chemicals and their safe use. It deals with the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances. The new law entered into force on 1 June 2007. ACI is exploring approaches for efficiently transferring chemical datasets and evaluations to European groups for REACH registrations. Specific ACI consortia have granted permission to APAG, EFEMA, FEDIOL, and EBB to use their data compilations to support requests for exemptions from REACH under Annex IV. The EU has granted some of these chemicals exemptions: http://echa.europa.eu/doc/reach/regulation_annexes_iv_v_en.pdf .

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Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:32006R1907:EN:NOT