The European Chemical Agency, ECHA, added five new substances to the list of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) overnight.
The EU’s SVHC list expanded from 242 to 247 today. These are potentially dangerous substances that carry EU reporting responsibilities if any individual part (or any part of any part) of your product contains > 0.1% of any of these substances.
This was expected and is the regular winter (December/January) REACH update. 2024 was interesting for REACH because there were three ECHA SVHC Updates. It increased to 240 in January, 241 in July, and 242 in November. Usually there are only two: one in the winter and one in the summer. The amount of susbtances can vary each time.
What does this mean for you?
You must prepare new SCIP dossiers within six months, every time the list updates, if you are continuing to build and ship equipment to the EU. Any SVHC content > 0.1% in any part of the build will require a submission to the SCIP database. REACH, along with the Waste Framework Directive, aka “WFD,” require reporting of these substances. But, these substances are not restricted from use.
F2 Labs can help you with this. We can take your bill of materials and put this on auto-pilot for you. Our REACH (and RoHS and Prop 65) compliance work and deliverable(s) free you and your colleagues from looking for full material declarations and then scouring that against the list of 247 substances for every part in your build. We format and load your BoM into our system and then we look for the documentation and we contact your suppliers directly on your behalf.
We deliver a formatted and correct I6Z data file, ready for you to deliver with your product to your customer in the EU.
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