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For purchased substances the next stage is to try and find out if the supplier is planning to support the substance, in particular by registering the purchaser’s use and including this in the risk assessment of the CSR. The status of supposedly supported substances is likely to change as suppliers make business decisions to withdraw some of them. There are almost certain to be some unsupported substances in each company’s inventory of purchased chemicals, so a decision then has to be made on how to deal with this problem.
The 6 to 7 June 2005 Competitiveness Council supported the French proposal to give the European Chemicals Agency extra responsibility in evaluating dossiers for substances at 100 and 1,000 tonnes per annum. • The first reading of the proposed REACH Regulation by the European Parliament is scheduled for November 2005 at the earliest. The rapporteurs for the lead Environment and Industry Committees, Guido Sacconi and Lena Ek respectively, have proposed extensive amendments to REACH. Hartmut Nassauer, the rapporteur for the Internal Market and Consumer Committee, also responsible for the European Parliament’s opinion on the REACH proposal, has issued a report suggesting extensive amendments, and in essence has suggested REACH is completely redrafted.
Such additives, which have been phased out of car winter tyres and truck and bus tyres, are still used in car summer tyres, where they enhance processing and road-grip performance. The switch to low-PAH oils will involve a huge amount of discussion with vehicle makers to agree new formulations. Another worry for the tyre industry concerns the availability of the most promising replacement oils, MES (Mild Extraction Solvate) and TDAE (Treated Distillate Aromatic Extract). There are also concerns that there are no standards in place to measure the PAH content in the oil, or in the tyre.