Are you prepared for REACH?
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REACH may seem like a technical issue that only affects the chemical industry, but nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, the regulation affects any entity that processes chemical substances in everyday products and anyone who sells such products. REACH is a complex regulation, which makes it difficult to obtain a good overview of not only all the obligations involved, but also the opportunities. Experts at PricewaterhouseCoopers will be happy to support you in thoroughly preparing and implementing REACH compliance. We will identify your opportunities, help to set up your REACH administration and assist you in the eventual implementation.
Below you find an overview of the services PwC can offer you to help implement REACH, including consortium management services and registration representation services.
REACH Implementation Services
- Business Impact Assessment: A thorough analysis of your substances portfolio and the consequences of REACH for your organization
- Awareness Seminars: Information meetings for those responsible for implementing REACH, making them aware of the content of the regulation and the consequences for their own organization and department
- Coaching of REACH managers and/or coordinators
- Support in determining the impact of REACH on your profit and loss account and balance sheet, on the basis of guidelines for REACH accounting under IFRS and US GAAP
- REACH implementation management: Interim management to help implement REACH
- Event identification updating as part of enterprise risk management. This involves an analysis of how damage caused by REACH can be prevented. Together with you, we determine vulnerabilities, and consider which options would be appropriate and what the consequences would be.
- Tax advice on transfer pricing issues
Consortium Management Services
- We provide consortia with supportive secretarial, bookkeeping and operational management services to enable the consortium to efficiently deliver its tasks
- We have eperience in designing the consortium related administrative organization (for consortia as well as participants)
- By means of our tools for Consortium Benefits Management we support consortium participants to maintain in control of the consortium overhead and benefits
- Consortium Monitor: This tool provides an independent opinion on participating in consortia, setting criteria that a well-functioning REACH consortium should meet
- Consortium Navigator: This tool provides an overview of active consortia that are open to new members, and helps you choose appropriate consortia given your own portfolio
- An overview of REACH-related audit risks
- REACH volume verification: Independent testing of volume data (e.g., as a basis for sharing costs in a consortium and a SIEF, a Substance Information Exchange Forum)
REACH Representation Services
- We can support you in choosing the right type of representation: third party representative, only representative or third-party data holder
- We help you find a suitable representative
- REACH Shared Service Desk: This service operates as a ready-made, fully equipped only representative for exporters to the EU. It is executed from a legal entity under your governance, helps to ensure exact compliance with REACH obligations and serves as a liaison officer for the EU.
- REACH Expert Network: This network, initiated by PwC, makes it easy to access process- and content-related expertise (including toxicological and legal)
- We excel in setting up administrative systems with an acceptable level of risk
- We also provide administrative support to ensure the smooth communication and cooperation required for efficient registration
