June 1 is approaching and this day will be the EU's REACH legislation (all known as "Chemical Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction"), the third anniversary of entry into force.
    And more than a month ago, the EU environment commissioner has said a, REACH regulations in some parts of the content is not yet clear, need to change, to accelerate the use of safe alternative to harmful chemical substances processes. This change will give the Chinese textile and garment industry in general?
    Dyes and most companies should be concerned about the content is modified

    "Generally speaking, REACH regulations on the impact of China's textile industry is the most important textile and apparel exports increased the difficulty of raising the price of the dyes, increasing the cost of the textile industry." An industry source said.

    Textile industry is the chemical industry's downstream industries. Textile yarn, fabric dyeing and finishing process will be used to contain the chemical constituents of various dyes, auxiliaries, finishing agents. These yarns, fabrics and textiles made by and clothing inevitably contain some chemicals. These chemicals regulation REACH is the regulation of "items of chemical substances."

    Of course, despite the vast majority of textile and apparel containing more or less of some chemicals, but not to be affected by the REACH regulation. Textiles and apparel manufacturers, importers only in the product contains a chemical substance meets the conditions of regulation, REACH, only need to register on the chemical substances, for permission or to use as subject to restricted substances.

    Industry experts said, from the favorable side, REACH strict environmental regulations and technical standards are in Yidingchengduo Shang help promote China's textile enterprises to improve technical processes, improve product quality, thus advancing the textile industrial structure Tiaozheng and Chanyeshengji. However, REACH enforcement in the beginning, China's textile industry will certainly have to bear considerable negative impact.

    REACH legislation has increased the production costs of textile export enterprises, reducing downstream products of our export textile industry's competitiveness in the EU market. Complete the registration, licensing procedures need to provide a large number of materials, including some of the complex must be made to detect and evaluate the report. Companies need to pay the high costs (including testing, evaluation, registration, license fees, etc.). It is estimated that each registered party for each sub-stage registration of chemical substances, test cost needs about € 85,000 (excluding long-term assessment of costs); presumptuous for each phase of each registered party registration of chemical substances registration, test fees needs about € 255,000 (excluding long-term assessment of costs).
    Although China is the textile and clothing producing countries, but most of the exports of small and medium enterprises, exports and more products are middle and low. Small and medium-scale textile and garment export business, whether in the enterprise management level, or grade in the textile equipment, processing technology are at the lower level. To adapt to the new EU chemicals policy on the requirements of textile, textile production process strictly control harmful substances produced quite a large degree of difficulty, in Zijin, Shebei, talent, production technology and other aspects of the investment Xuyaojiaoda. In addition, the new EU chemicals policy from protection of the law on the import of textiles and clothing are very stringent requirements, the importer can be substandard product quality, chemical ingredient failure as an excuse to raise breach of contract to the export side, returns, price reduction processing, claims and other arbitrary requirements.

    EU Environment Commissioner has proposed that the current high interest materials (SVHC) list only 30 substances, including the new addition to acrylamide, the other 29 kinds of material are waiting to be replaced. On this topic, the reporter interviewed a number of testing agency, testing organizations that REACH regulations did not affect textile enterprises, and dyes and enterprises should pay more attention; several other testing organizations are not too much attention to REACH legislation specific changes to the content. Testing and certification center 39, an information provided to reporters, lists 29 species of great concern, is waiting to be alternative substances (SVHC), including cobalt dichloride, arsenic pentoxide, arsenic trioxide, lead hydrogen arsenate, anthracene, sodium dichromate, etc..
Five strokes should REACH regulations

    TESTEX - Swiss Textile Co., Ltd., a test of staff told reporters on the REACH regulation textile and garment enterprises to remain cautiously optimistic. Enterprises should focus REACH regulations promptly banned chemicals and substances of concern about the changes in the high, pay attention to the changes limited value, in order to reduce the risk of export products.

    For China's exports to the EU textile and garment enterprises, the first task is to briefly understand the REACH regulations, clarify whether the enterprise exports affected by the REACH regulation, if that may be affected, enterprises should fully understand the REACH regulations on the industry's impact and influence , in particular, production, management, use of chemicals companies need to understand the security features of chemical substances. Upstream and downstream enterprises, especially their business customers in the European Union to communicate, find out their management of chemical products and downstream products of chemical is required to be registered, when the registration must be completed as soon as possible to collect registration required by regulations data and information.

    Second, companies should be familiar with REACH regulations, in particular, the technical guidance document. Efforts should be made with international standards or standards of the world famous enterprises organize production in kind, and strengthen detection technology and means of mutual recognition of test data for the EU.

    In addition, enterprises should check the internal use of all chemical products, and under the REACH regulatory requirements, determine chemicals of Leibie, if the company's products relate to the REACH regulations of chemicals covered, it should quickly Zhuoshou consultation Tiqian preparations to cope with.

    Again, familiar with the registration, evaluation and authorization procedures should be based on different categories, ready for pre-registration and registration of the relevant technical materials needed to meet the full implementation of REACH regulation.

    Finally, the full use of the bridge industry associations, to strengthen inspection and quarantine, WTO Affairs Center and other government functions of communication, timely access to information from government departments and technical support and timely feedback information.

    Source "China Textile Network"

    Editor: Lu Zhen Zhen