Declaration of meeting REACH requirements:
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Contact and additional information:reach@rt.dunaferr.hu

About REACH

What is REACH?
REACH is the Regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. It entered into force on 1st June 2007 to streamline and improve the former legislative framework on chemicals of the European Union (EU). REACH places greater responsibility on industry to manage the risks that chemicals may pose to the health and the environment.
In principle REACH applies to all chemicals: not only chemicals used in industrial processes but also in our day-to-day life, for example in cleaning products, paints as well as in articles such as clothes, furniture and electrical appliances.
Objectives
The aims of REACH are to:

• Improve the protection of human health and the environment from the risks that can be posed by chemicals
• Enhance the competitiveness of the EU chemicals industry, a key sector for the economy of the EU
• Promote alternative methods for the assessment of hazards of substances
• Ensure the free circulation of substances on the internal market of the European Union

Why REACH?
REACH replaces about 40 pieces of legislation with a streamlined and improved Regulation. Other legislation regulating chemicals (e.g. on cosmetics, detergents) or related legislation (e.g. on health and safety of workers handling chemicals, product safety, construction products) not replaced by REACH will continue to apply. REACH has been designed not to overlap or conflict with the other chemical legislation.

The role of REACH in the operations of ISD DUNAFERR Zrt.

REACH involves all substances purchased and produced/traded by ISD DUNAFERR Zrt.

All potential constituents present in the products have been pre-registered either by ISD DUNAFERR Zrt. or by its suppliers.

Produced and traded rolled steel products /heavy plates, hot and cold rolled coils and sheets, cold bent open and hollow sections as well as coated product/ are qualified as articles under REACH regulations, and as such, they are exempt from registration.

The secondary products produced/traded by ISD DUNAFERR Zrt. include such substances that must be registered under REACH; the registration deadline of such substances is 30 November 2010. ISD DUNAFERR Zrt. has already carried out the required pre-registration.

For purchased substances the conformity of the relevant substance to the REACH regulation must be checked in each instance as of December 2008.