{"id":14444,"date":"2019-01-14T19:09:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T18:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/hse\/?p=5302"},"modified":"2022-07-07T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T03:46:08","slug":"updated-guidance-regulating-chemicals-reach-no-brexit-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/blog\/updated-guidance-regulating-chemicals-reach-no-brexit-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Updated Guidance on Regulating chemicals (REACH) if there is no Brexit deal –"},"content":{"rendered":"On 19th December 2018, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs has published the Updated Guidance on Regulating chemicals (REACH) if there\u2019s no Brexit deal’. This Guidance explains how businesses producing, registering, importing or exporting chemicals would be affected if the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no deal.\n\nIn the unlikely event of a no deal, the UK Government would ensure UK legislation replaces EU legislation via the EU Withdrawal Act, establish a UK regulatory framework and build domestic capacity to deliver the functions currently performed by ECHA. The legislation would preserve REACH as far as\u00a0possible,\u00a0while making technical changes that would need to be made because the UK has left the EU.\n\nIf \u00a0UK will leave the EU without a deal, companies with substances registered under REACH would no longer be able to sell into the EEA market without transferring their registrations to an EEA-based organisation.UK downstream users currently importing chemicals from an EEA country would face new registration requirements according to the Guidance. Under Britain\u2019s replacement for REACH, importers would have a duty to register chemicals. Similarly UK downstream users of authorisations would no longer be able to rely on authorisation decisions addressed to companies in the remaining EEA countries.\n\nTo ensure the continuity for business the UK Government would:\n