UK REACH Regulation

Experien Health Sciences, along with our UK-based partner Experien Chemical Services (Europe) Limited, brings all our EU REACH experience to the table to help clients navigate the changes to chemical regulations in the UK brought about by BREXIT. While the UK has largely kept the EU REACH requirements intact, there are important differences and no longer are your EU REACH registrations automatically applicable to chemicals placed on the market in the UK. Likewise, the “Letters of Access” that you purchased for data for your EU REACH registrations may not apply to a UK REACH registration.

We have technically qualified personnel on both sides of the Atlantic with many years of experience who can:

  • Help you understand how UK REACH impacts you and help you devise a compliance strategy that maximizes the benefits to your business.
  • File your UK legal entity’s Downstream User Import Notification (DUIN) to extend your registration deadlines until the end of the transition period or help your UK customers take advantage of this important provision of the regulation.
  • Help you understand the cost and timing of filing a UK REACH registration for your substances, and help you identify any cost-saving data waivers that can be applied.
  • Serve as your Only Representative or Third-Party Representative.
  • Help secure access to the physical-chemical, toxicological, eco-toxicological, and environmental fate data that may be required to support your registration, whether by sponsoring your own testing using qualified laboratories, by identifying analog or read-across data to include in your submission, or by purchasing access to the data you need from other manufacturers of the same substance through the Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF).
  • Complete any required exposure assessments and risk characterisations and prepare the Chemical Safety Report (CSR).
  • Prepare your registrations dossiers, as Lead Registrant or Joint Registrant, and submit them to the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE), in the required IUCLID format, through the Comply with UK REACH system (UK REACH-IT).
  • Help you maintain compliance by updating the dossiers as required and by responding to HSE if your substance is chosen for evaluation, restriction, or authorisation.
  • Help you to properly communicate your UK REACH registration status to customers and explain the duties they retain under the regulation.