The U.S. Commercial Service Aerospace & Defense Team, in cooperation with ERA Technology and the U.S. Commercial Service Mission to the EU, presents...

The REACH Regulation and Its Impact on the Aviation Sector

Wednesday, October 29, 2008
8:00 a.m. Pacific/ 11:00 a.m. Eastern/ 4:00 p.m. United Kingdom
Venue:  Your computer and phone connection!!!

Are you a U.S. aviation company that supplies customers in Europe?  Are you familiar with how the REACH regulation may affect you?  Do you wonder if the REACH regulation does affect you?

Please join us on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 for a webinar to address how this important regulation impacts the aviation industry and U.S. aviation suppliers to the EU.  REACH is the most major piece of legislation to impact manufacturing in the last 25 years.  It supersedes 40 existing legal instruments as a harmonized system applying to chemicals manufactured, used, or present in products in the EU.  It is thought that it applies to about 30,000 chemicals currently in use.  REACH shifts the onus from regulators to industry to show that the chemicals it uses are safe on the basis of "no data - no market".

REACH stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction of Chemicals, which describes its central process.  It has been assumed by some that because this regulation concerns "chemicals" it is of no relevance to the engineering and electrical products sector - this is not at all the case.  All products are made of chemicals and REACH has both direct legal and indirect impacts on this sector.

The webinar will cover:

-   Global trends in environmental regulation
-   What is REACH and what obligations fall on the engineering sector
-   How REACH is impacting the aviation sector
   - Obsolescence
   - Changes in company processes
   - Maintainability
-   Steps to compliance and reducing business risk
   - Identifying Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs)
   - Increasing pressure to substitute substances (the "SIN" list and others)
-   U.S. Commercial Service assistance in understanding and complying with REACH

The registration fee for this webinar is $35.  To register, click here.  

For more information, please contact Stephanie Heckel, U.S. Commercial Service (954-356-6640; Stephanie.Heckel@N0SPAM.mail.doc.gov ).  The webinar link address and dial-in phone instructions will be sent to you upon registration.  Copies of the presentation will be available for download on the webinar.