Identified Use Services

Identify Uses and Maintain Confidentiality

REACH requires that each chemical substance is registered by a manufacturer or importer for each and every identified use to which the substance is put by all of the manufacturer’s or importer’s customers.

According to the REACH text an identified use: “means a use of a substance on its own or in a preparation, or a use of a preparation, that is intended by an actor in the supply chain, including his own use, or that is made known to him in writing by an immediate downstream user.“

Businesses planning their REACH compliance program will require a mechanism for providing information on chemical uses and exposures up and down the supply chain.

Manufacturers will need to ask their customers what they use their chemical for and under what exposure conditions. Many customers will want to hold this information confidential. In fact, manufacturers only need to know all of the uses and exposures so that they can include the aggregate information in their REACH registration dossier.

AMEC can fill this need as a third party that guards all confidential information. AMEC can obtain manufacturers confidential customer lists under a strict confidentiality agreement. AMEC would then contact all of the customers and ask them about use and exposure information.

AMEC would ensure and certify that the customers’ identities would be held confidential. The only information passed up the supply chain to the manufacturer would be information that “a customer” identified use X under exposure conditions Y. At the completion of the project, the manufacturer would receive a table of uses and exposure information provided by all of their customers in the aggregate. 

In addition, AMEC would provide a status report of which customers have responded and which have not. This information would allow them to enter each of these uses into their REACH registration dossier. Alternatively, if they wish not to support one or more uses, they can contact AMEC and instruct AMEC to call the customers who use a chemical for use Z and tell them that they will not include use Z in the registration dossier.

On the other hand, chemical users have the opposite need. They need to inform their suppliers of their uses to ensure that their uses are included in the suppliers’ REACH registration dossiers. Thus, AMEC can also assist chemical users to provide information in the opposite direction. Chemical users would provide their confidential supplier list under a confidentiality agreement, and AMEC would contact suppliers and inform them of use and exposure information from “a confidential customer.”

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