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
Chemical/substance and article duties depend on role, concentration, tonnage and exceptions; Article 33 communication has no tonnage threshold.
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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