Concawe Review 33.2 – Special REACH Edition

Compliance with the requirements of REACH and the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) regulation is essential for the licence to operate, and to be able to produce and sell petroleum products in Europe.
Concawe is managing a portfolio of 140 substances for +/- 400 registrants and, as such, develops its expertise and energy to keep the dossiers compliant with the evolution of those two regulations. This entire Review is focused on Concawe REACH activities, and details some of our latest developments:

• The evaluation of the impact of our substances on the environment is a high focus for the regulator. The first article details the first environmental update that Concawe brought to the REACH dossiers
  since 2010, applying read-across, predictive models and testing proposals.
• In order to justify read-across between substances and to minimise animal testing, Concawe needs to justify the structural and biological similarities between the substances, the latter being realised for reproductive and developmental toxicity by OECD 422 Tests. The second article describes how these tests led to self-classification of the gas oil substances as Reproductive Toxicity Category 1B(H360FD).
• The third article sets out the developments brought by Concawe to take into account the new requirements of the CLP regulation, which has recently introduced new hazard classes: endocrine disruption (ED); persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT); very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB); persistent, mobile and toxic (PMT); and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM).
• The Concawe classification and labelling report is an important document, helping all actors involved in fuels and petroleum products manufacturing and distribution in Europe to comply with the requirements of the CLP legislation. The fourth article presents the key updates presented in the latest two editions of the report.
• Following the evolution of European climate and energy policies, which promote the increased use of low-carbon fuels, Concawe has integrated the scientific study of renewable liquid fuel substances in its scope. The final article in this Review presents the scientific challenges and practical implementation of integrating these novel substances into the Concawe REACH portfolio.