2. Does importing mean marketing?
Based on the inventory, you can identify the substances you import. To do this, you need to know the country of your supplier.
If your distributor is based in the European Economic Area (EEA), you are not responsible for placing the purchased substance on the market. You are a downstream user as defined by REACh regulations.
If your supplier is not based in the EEA, you are responsible for importing into the European market. As import is automatically considered as placing on the market, you are responsible for placing on the market.
2.1 UEE – European Economic Area
The European Economic Area comprises the EU (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,...
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Huguette Déchariaux, REACh: a new regulation for chemical substances, SL 6 705, Éditions Techniques de l'ingénieur - www.techniques-ingenieur.fr
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Regulation (EC) n°1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of December 18, 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACh)
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