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Advice for GB-based companies who held EU REACH authorisations on maintaining access to the UK and EU markets.

Maintaining access to GB market 

If you were a GB based authorisation holder under EUREACH then you should have submitted the following information to the HSE via email within 60 days of the UK leaving EU REACH.

  •  Information included in the application for the authorisation
  • Any other information provided to ECHA for the authorisation application which was material to the formation of ECHA’s opinion
  • Any information required to be submitted or recorded before the UK left REACH under any condition under which the authorisation was granted 

If you submitted an authorisation application to ECHA but ECHA did not finalised its opinions in time for the end of the transition period, the dossier needs to be resubmitted to the HSE to continue to use the substance after its sunset date as stated in Annex XIV. Depending on the circumstances, the Latest Application Date has been extended.

 If your application is in its final stage whereby ECHA has adopted its final decision but the European Commission did not make a final decision on granting or refusing the application, then the Secretary of State for Defra decides on the application using the opinions that ECHA sent to the European Commission. To benefit from this the GB company had to notify the Secretary of State within 180 days of the UK leaving EU REACH and provide them with the following information: 

  • tell the Secretary of State that the application exists
  • provide them with copies of the application along with all information within it 
  • copies of ECHA’s opinions  

 This means that the GB company can continue to use the substance after the sunset date stated in Annex XIV.

Further information is available here

Maintaining access to EU market 

It was possible for a GB based manufacture or formulator to transfer their completed authorisation or pending authorisation application to an Only Representative based in the EU. The transfer process is closed.

 It is important to note that a change of legal entity can’t extend the scope of the original application for authorisation e.g. to cover different uses.

GB companies have no longer have full access to their REACH IT accounts. They however maintained access to their message boxes.