REACH regulation is the most common technical trade barrier in European trade. In first half of 2020, more than 150 notifications about unsafe products breaching REACH regulation were made through the Rapid Alert System for Non-Food Products (RAPEX). Recently, the following restricted substances in the Annex XVII of the REACH Regulation will come into effect, please pay attention.

Entry 51, Phthalates (DEHP,DBP,BBP,DIBP)

Shall not be placed on the market after 7 July 2020 in toys or childcare articles, DIBP individually or in any combination with the other three phthalates, in a concentration equal to or greater than 0,1 % by weight of the plasticised material.

Shall not be placed on the market after 7 July 2020 in articles, individually or in any combination of the four phthalates, in a concentration equal to or greater than 0,1 % by weight of the plasticised material in the article.

Entry 68, PFOA including its salts and PFOA-related substances

Shall not be manufactured, or placed on the market as substances on their own from 4 July 2020.

Shall not, from 4 July 2020, be used in the production of, or placed on the market in:(a) another substance, as a constituent;(b) a mixture;(c) an article, in a concentration equal to or above 25 ppb of PFOA including its salts or 1 000 ppb of one or a combination of PFOA-related substances.

Entry 72, The substances in Appendix 12

Shall not be placed on the market after 1 November 2020 in any of the following:

(a) clothing or related accessories;

(b) textiles other than clothing which, under normal or reasonably foreseeable conditions of use, come into contact with human skin to an extent similar to clothing;

(c) footwear;

If the clothing, related accessory, textile other than clothing or footwear is for use by consumers and the substance is present in a concentration, measured in homogeneous material, equal to or greater than that specified for that substance in Appendix 12.

The substances in Appendix 12

Entry 46a, Nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE)

Shall not be placed on the market after 3 February 2021 in textile articles which can reasonably be expected to be washed in water during their normal lifecycle, in concentrations equal to or greater than 0,01 % by weight of that textile article or of each part of the textile article.

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