Hazardous chemicals

Entrepreneurs have to make sure that their products pose no risk to their customers, employees or the environment.

Therefore,

• chemical manufacturers
• importers
• users or
• processing companies

are subject to certain obligations arising from chemicals legislation.

Chemicals are regulated within the European Union by the REACH and the CLP Regulation:

• REACH stands for the registration, evaluation, authorisation and restriction of chemicals.
• CLP stands for the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures.

Entrepreneurs have further legal requirements concerning biocides, trading in toxic substances, poison control officers, fluorinated greenhouse gases, the Halon Bank, chemical leasing, bans on chemicals, and nanomaterials.

Further links

• Extensive information on chemical policy in Austria (→ BMK)^{German text}
• Chem News: Current priorities in chemical policy (→ BMK)^{German text}
• Austrian REACH helpdesk: Information on REACH and CLP (→ BMK)^{German text}
• SCIP database: Notification requirements for hazardous chemicals in articles (→ BMK)^{German text}
• App Scan4Chem: Information obligation of entrepreneurs (→ BMK)^{German text}