EU Regulation · REACH
REACH Regulation
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006
REACH governs the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemical substances in the EU. For hardware, it most often surfaces as a duty to communicate substances of very high concern present in articles above the 0.1 % threshold.
What it covers
Any product containing chemical substances — notification is required for substances of very high concern above 0.1 % w/w.
How it applies to your product
For hardware, REACH most often surfaces as the duty to communicate Substances of Very High Concern present in an article above 0.1 % by weight, and to notify the SCIP database held by ECHA. It is not a CE-marking instrument, but it runs in parallel for any product that contains chemical substances.
Authoritative source
Always confirm against the primary text on EUR-Lex — the official EU legal database.
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