eReach and ReachConnect - two projects accompanying the introduction of the REACH-Regulation

Abstract

REACH is the new European Community Regulation on chemicals which came into being in 2007. It regulates the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals. In our daily work we have discovered the need to explain the REACH-Regulation in layman’s terms. In a short time many industry players have developed a need for a fundamental understanding of the new REACH-Regulation. Therefore, an online training course, eReach was developed by a project team in cooperation with our European partners. The goal of this online tutorial was to explain the basic mechanisms and the new terms that came along with the new REACH-Regulation. The UBA (Federal Environment Agency) was an active member of this project team. After the regulation began in 2007, the UBA wanted to support all REACH players in Germany by creating an online expert platform. A follow-up project called ReachConnect was therefore created. This presentation will give an overview of these two projects that accompanied the REACHRegulation, including an explanation of the tools and methods which were used.