K-REACH – Accestra Consulting https://www.accestra.com Your long term strategic partner for regulatory compliance. Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:24:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://www.accestra.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/cropped-accestra2-32x32.png K-REACH – Accestra Consulting https://www.accestra.com 32 32 K-REACH: Pre-registration window opens for another two weeks https://www.accestra.com/k-reach-pre-registration-window-opens-for-another-two-weeks/ Thu, 11 Jul 2019 07:24:19 +0000 http://www.accestra.com/?p=2506 The Ministry of Environment (MoE) of South Korea issued a notice on Jul 5th that the pre-registration system will re-open to applicants from Jul 8th to Jul 19th to allow the industry to update their pre-registration information. At the same time, companies can also submit new pre-registrations in this period.

According to the requirement of “The Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals of Korea”, i.e. “K-REACH”, all existing chemical substances manufactured or imported at ≥ 1 t/a in Korea shall submit pre-registration before Jun 30th, 2019 to obtain the grace period for standard registration. And because many companies are rushing to submit pre-registration right before the deadline, there are quite a few error information submitted in the pre-registration system. That’s the reason why Korea MoE made this decision to re-open the system for another two weeks. However, the company which missed the pre-registration deadline can take this opportunity to submit its chemical information. The registration procedure is just like the original one.

]]> South Korea REACH: Exist chemical pre-registration deadline: 30th Jun 2019 https://www.accestra.com/south-korea-reach-exist-chemical-pre-registration-deadline-30th-jun-2019/ Wed, 06 Mar 2019 07:15:32 +0000 http://www.accestra.com/?p=1950 1 Jan. 2019, the recent hot topic amended “K-REACH” which refers to “Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals of Korea officially took effect. Enterprises’ obligations under this Act would be changed tremendously. For instance, the amended K-REACH introduced pre-registration, which would affect the regulatory compliance work of related enterprises:

  • All New substances which are not listed in the KECI(Korea Existing Chemical Inventory) must be registered prior the manufacture or import activity.
  • All existing chemical substances >=1t/y must be registered within given grace periods.

To benefit from the grace periods for existing substances, manufacturers and importers are obliged to pre-register with Korea authority for all existing chemical substances >=1t/ybefore 30 Jun 2019. For chemicals that are not pre-registered before 30 Jun 2019 cannot enjoy the grace period benefit, thus will not be allowed to export to Korea from 1 July 2019.

The “K-REACH” was enforced back to Jan.1, year 2015. Since then the South Korea’s Ministry of Environment have made several times amendments and the final version is significantly changed from the previous version which officially took effect on 1 Jan 2019. Manufactures and importers shall pay attention to the new requirements of compliance, as well as the following registration deadlines:

Substance tonnage type Registration deadlines
PECs joint registration for 510 designated existing substances 2018/6/30
≥1000t/a exist chemicals >1t CMR 2021/12/31
100-1000t/a exist chemicals 2024/12/31
10-100t/a exist chemicals 2027/12/31
1-10t/a exist chemicals 2030/12/31
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