{"id":2144,"date":"2015-12-10T08:07:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T08:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyro.org.uk\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2018-03-05T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T15:46:59","slug":"guidance-for-fireworks-as-articles-according-to-reach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Guidance for Fireworks as Articles according to REACH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The REACH working group, which was mandated by CEN to produce guidance on the application of REACH to pyrotechnic articles in general, and fireworks in particular, has prepared the attached draft guide.<\/p>\n<p>Click here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pyro2.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/CEN-TC-212-Professionnal-REACH-Guidance-Fireworks-V5.pdf\">CEN TC 212 Professionnal REACH Guidance Fireworks V5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The working group will shortly approach both the REACH authorities and the European Commission and present this guide \u2013 which concludes that in almost all cases fireworks should be considered as articles under REACH and not as containers for substances (the exception being sublimed dye containing smoke generators).<\/p>\n<p>The onus on determining whether an article falls within scope of REACH rests with the importer of the product (obviously true manufacturers may be importing raw chemicals in quantities subject to the REACH requirements) but may be subject to challenge by the enforcing authorities.\u00a0 This guide provides a pan-European rationale behind the conclusion that most fireworks are ARTICLES under REACH (despite ECHA\u2019s own guidance) and has been endorsed by many European Associations as well as by BAM (The German authority akin to HSE).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The REACH working group, which was mandated by CEN to produce guidance on the application of REACH to pyrotechnic articles in general, and fireworks in particular, has prepared the attached draft guide. Click here:\u00a0CEN TC 212 Professionnal REACH Guidance Fireworks V5 The working group will shortly approach both the REACH authorities and the European Commission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pyro.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}