{"id":6597,"date":"2021-03-08T13:21:50","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T12:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.red-on-line-ehs.co.uk\/ehs\/?p=6597"},"modified":"2025-08-20T15:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T13:28:32","slug":"uk-reach-regime-for-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/blog\/uk-reach-regime-for-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-businesses\/","title":{"rendered":"UK REACH Regime for Great Britain and Northern Ireland businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><strong>UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;for&nbsp;NI&nbsp;businesses<\/strong><\/h6> <ul>   <li>NI&nbsp;businesses moving goods to and from the EU can continue to use EU&nbsp;REACH.<\/li>   <li>NI businesses who are GB&nbsp;importers need to submit some information on the substances they source from&nbsp;NI&nbsp;in quantities of one tonne or more. They must submit this information within 300 days of the end of the transition period.<\/li> <\/ul> <h6><strong>UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;for&nbsp;GB&nbsp;businesses<\/strong><\/h6> Under UK&nbsp;REACH, manufacturers and importers must register chemicals that access the&nbsp;GB&nbsp;market. You must review your: <ul>   <li>role in the EU&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;system<\/li>   <li>role in the UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;system<\/li>   <li>your current supply chains<\/li> <\/ul> If you are a GB business:\u200b <ul>   <li>Holding EU REACH registration, you need to&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;grandfathering&#8221;&nbsp;<\/strong>the registration into the UK&nbsp;REACH regime with&nbsp;the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) by&nbsp;30 April 2021.\u200b<\/li>   <li>Who are&nbsp;<strong>downstream users&nbsp;<\/strong>and&nbsp;currently importing chemicals from an EU or EEA&nbsp;country,&nbsp;need to ensure the substances they purchase are covered by a valid&nbsp;UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;registration.\u200b<\/li> <\/ul> <h6>\u200b<strong>Summary: Who should apply for&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>UK REACH<\/strong>\u200b<\/h6> <ul>   <li>GB-based companies that manufacture in or import substances into GB in quantities of 1&nbsp;tonne per year or greater.\u200b<\/li>   <li>GB-based companies that had submitted a registration dossier to ECHA via REACH-IT but did&nbsp;not receive a registration number prior to the date of Exit.\u200b\u200b<\/li>   <li>EU-based companies intending to appoint a GB-based Only Representative (OR) to take on&nbsp;the registration responsibilities of GB-based importers.\u200b\u200b<\/li> <\/ul> <h6>\u200b<strong>Applying for a UK REACH Authorisation<\/strong>\u200b<\/h6> <ul>   <li>If you applied to EU REACH authorisation before the&nbsp;latest&nbsp;application dates (LADs), but&nbsp;were&nbsp;not granted the authorisation before the transition period ends, you may have extended LADs&nbsp;to apply under UK REACH.\u200b<\/li>   <li>The process for applying for authorisation under UK REACH is very similar to the EU&nbsp;process and much of the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) guidance and templates can be&nbsp;used.\u200b<\/li>   <li>If you think you need to apply for UK REACH authorisation, you can contact the Agency to&nbsp;notify your intention at&nbsp;<a>ukreach.authorisation@hse.gov.uk<\/a>, using the subject &#8220;notification of&nbsp;intention to submit an application for authorisation&#8221;.\u200b<\/li> <\/ul> Source: <ul>   <li><a><strong>Guidance for new registrants under UK REACH<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;published by HSE<\/strong>\u200b<\/li>   <li><a><strong>GB-based holder of an existing EU REACH authorisation<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>published by HSE<\/strong>\u200b<\/li>   <li><a><strong>GB-based downstream users of an existing EU REACH authorisation<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;published by HSE<\/strong>\u200b<\/li>   <li><a><strong>Recognising your EU REACH registrations under UK REACH (grandfathering)<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>published by HSE<\/strong>\u200b<\/li>   <li><a><strong>Guidance:<\/strong><\/a><a><strong>&nbsp;How to comply with REACH chemical regulations<\/strong><\/a><strong>&nbsp;published by UK Government website<\/strong><\/li> <\/ul> &nbsp;  Related articles:  <a>EU | Brexit | The UK EU Brexit Agreement &#8211; EHS News &#8211; Red-on-Line Blog (red-on-line-ehs.co.uk)<\/a>  &nbsp;   <span class=\"separator separator--center separator--gradient separator--md\"><\/span>\n\n\n<h4><span class=\"has-inline-color has-color-5-color\"><strong>EHS regulatory compliance and monitoring \u2013 an expert solution to ensure your organization\u2019s compliance <\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay ahead of evolving HSE requirements across 300+ jurisdictions, with daily updates curated by our in-house legal experts.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bttn-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/solutions\/regulatory-compliance-and-monitoring\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"bttn  bttn--md\"><span class=\"bttn__cont-label-icon\"><span class=\"bttn__label\">Discover Red-on-line\u2019s regulatory compliance and monitoring solution.<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;is part of the UK\u2019s chemicals regulatory regime. Companies that supply and purchase substances, mixtures or articles to and from&nbsp;the&nbsp;EU\/EEA\/Northern Ireland and Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales) will need&nbsp;to&nbsp;ensure that the relevant duties are met under both UK and EU REACH. In a word,&nbsp;If you sell or distribute chemicals in the UK and the EU, you\u2019ll need to follow both UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;and EU&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[536,78,602,611],"tags":[94,564],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK REACH Regime for Great Britain and Northern Ireland businesses - Red On line (COM)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.red-on-line.com\/gb\/blog\/uk-reach-regime-for-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-businesses\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK REACH Regime for Great Britain and Northern Ireland businesses - Red On line (COM)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UK&nbsp;REACH&nbsp;is part of the UK\u2019s chemicals regulatory regime. 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