These are the obligations for manufacturers and importers:

• All chemicals with a production or import volume ≥ 1 t/a must be registered at the European Agency for Chemicals in Helsinki.
  
• For all chemicals ≥ 1 t/a, a technical dossier must be compiled.
  
• If ≥10 t/a, a Chemical Safety Report must be provided.
  
• In 2008 companies have already pre-registered their chemicals on the market(‘phase-in-chemicals’). Under certain conditions late pre-registration is allowed.
  
• The chemicals will be registered according to their tonnage within 3 years (>1000t/a), 6 years (>100t/a) and 11 years (>1t/a), CMR chemicals ≥1t/a and hazardous chemicals ≥100 t/a already within 3 years.
  
• The data requirements meet the annexes VII to X of the REACH Regulations and increase with production and import volume:
  1 – 10 t/a: annex VII
  10 – 100 t/a: annex VII + VIII
  100 – 1000 t/a: annex VII to IX
  >1000 t/a: annex VII to X
  
• Manufacturers and importers are obliged to hand out information about identified use to their customers.
  
• Extremely hazardous chemicals need authorisation. These are chemicals with carcinogenic, mutagenic, toxic for reproduction (CMR) properties, persistent, accumulating and toxic chemicals (PBT) and very persistent, very bioaccumulating chemicals (vPvB).

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