After completion of the REACH analysis, your company needs to assess its position for REACH. What is your role in the supply chain? If you are an industry, an importer or manufacturer of some substances, it is your obligation to register the substances with the European Chemicals Agency through IUCLID5. If you identified data gaps during the REACH analysis, you need to get organised in generating the data through IUCLID5, according to the information requirements.

The costs of completing the dossier for registration is to be balanced against the impact of substitution of abandoning production. Various Business Scenarios may be developed and strategic decisions are to be prepared.

The requirement that only one dossier be submitted for each substance entails the need for cooperation with other companies during registration. It is worth considering when and how to start these contacts.

It is also your obligation to inform your customers of the best way to use your substance safely in their processes and products. This means that you need to discuss with your customers how they use your products.