Introduction
PTK is a specialist consultancy with many years of experience at the heart of both UK and European policy making in the chemicals arena.
With an indepth knowledge of both REACH and GHS from both a policy and a technical perspective, combined with a lobbying capacity at a European Commission level, PTK is able to provide a range of consultancy services to enable your business to gain competitive advantage from Chemicals legislation — and not be weighed down in cost and red tape.
REACH places duties on actors throughout the chemical and downstream user supply chain. Companies and other stakeholders need to have a detailed understanding of how REACH will affect them and the skills and functions needed to meet these duties. Many decisions are being taken in supply chains now and some deadlines in REACH are close; you need to act now [see REACH: Priorities for Action ].
PTK is in a position to help you meet the challenge that REACH places on industry [see REACH: Services Available ]. Andrew Fasey is in a uniquely qualified position to help as one of the (very few) authors of the European Commission's REACH proposal and as the Special Advisor to the Government of Finland on REACH in their successful aim of finalising the REACH negotiations during their period as Presidency of the European Union. Andrew is helping many companies, trade associations, stakeholders and academic institutions plan for REACH and deliver as effectively and efficiently as possible.
PTK work closely with other expert collaborators and The REACH Centre in particular to ensure that all potential services can be delivered as part of a 'One Stop Shop' [see REACH: Collaborators ].
How to Operate Effectively and Efficiently in SIEFs and Consortia
2008 was a difficult year for many companies, setting up their substance inventories, working out how REACH would apply to them and making pre-registrations as required. And all of this whilst the goal posts appeared to be moving week-to-week (for example the guidance for Only Representatives (OR) changed 5 times during the pre-registration period with the last change being only a few days before the pre-registration deadline).
However, it may well be that the ‘pre-registration period' turns out to have been relatively straightforward. Companies have made 2.75 million pre-registrations and each one of them has been placed into pre-SIEFs for one of 150 thousand substances [ see SIEF presentation: How to Operate Efficiently in SIEFS and Consortia ]. Each pre-SIEF has to clearly identify the substance that will be registered and that will require its own SIEF. SIEFs may range in size from 1 member to over 5 thousand; they will range from the cooperative to the ‘shark infested' and destructive; they will have registration deadlines ranging from 2010 to 2018; they will have little or no data in some cases to a surplus in others; they will all as a minimum need to agree a lead registrant, cost and data sharing arrangements and ultimately classification and labelling and a registration dossier. The practical problems associated with ensuring that SIEFs operate effectively and efficiently cannot be underestimated. If you need help as a company involved in a SIEF or are a SIEF/consortium that requires support and advice PTK can help.
PTK provides Comprehensive SIEF Training
act now
Whilst REACH entered into force 1 June 2007 the key deadline to date was the end of the pre-registration period on 1 December 2008. Companies who have pre-registered are now trying to understand how SIEFs will operate and to influence them to help meet their aims and objectives. Decisions are being taken by companies in SIEFs and related to REACH requirements that will affect businesses the length of the supply chain in all sectors. To influence these decisions companies need to be acting now. PTK can help you.
