Sustainability Reporting – applicable to Chemical Safety Reports under REACh?

Abstract

REACh is the European regulation for the 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. To fulfil the regulation, industry has to generate Exposure Scenarios (ES), Chemical Safety Assessments (CSA) and Chemical Safety Reports (CSR) in a standard format. The European Chemical Agency provides this process with a workflow for registrants in carrying out the assessment for identified uses, to conduct exposure estimates, and to generate an Exposure Scenario and a Chemical Safety Report. Internet-based sustainable reporting is an approach for companies to replace from traditional reporting practice by more advanced sustainability communication. The methodology of “Sustainable Reporting Taxonomies Architecture” (SRTA) could be transferred and applied to Chemical Safety Reports under REACh. In total, internet-based sustainable reporting provides a useful source of methodologies that all stakeholders involved in the closely related field of REACh should take into account and then finally exploit the various insights.