To comply with the REACH regulation which came into effect on June 1, 2007, AkzoNobel Base Chemicals has taken the necessary steps with respect to the required registration of substances.

We inform you that we have pre-registered a number of substances contained in our products. Pre-registration is required by December 1st, 2008. This means that also after that date our customers will be able to continue using our products (assuming that the substances will be registered as we intend).

Below a complete and up-to-date overview of the pre-registered substances in our products can be found.

Product name	Substance name
Caustic soda lye  Chlorine  Demeon D  EDC  Hydrochloric acid  Hydrogen chloride  Ferric chloride  Ferrous chloride  Ferric chloride sulphate         MCA  SMCA  Sodium hypochlorite Sodium sulphate anhydr.	sodium hydroxide chlorine dimethylether 1,2-dichloroethane hydrogen chloride hydrogen chloride iron trichloride iron dichloride iron chloride sulphate chloroacetic acid sodium chloroacetate sodium hypochlorite sodium sulphate

Note:
Sodium chloride, as mineral occurring in nature and not chemically modified, is exempted from (pre-)registration (REACH legislation Annex V, 7). Our products, electrolysis salt and road salt, are therefore exempted under REACH.

Pre-registration numbers will not be revealed by us following the recommendation of CEFIC. All customers receive a written statement confirming the pre-registration of the substances in our products.

To our customers
We are now working on the registration of these substances, which registration has to be submitted to the European Chemicals Agency by November 30, 2010 at the latest. In view of this we like to confirm that AkzoNobel Base Chemicals will take the initiative to contact you well in advance of this date to obtain information about the use and exposure scenarios of our products in your processes. We expect to come back to you with a list of use categories into which you can classify your use. In due course we will advise you of the uses we will be registering. Please note that we will not be liable if we do not register all your uses unless explicitly confirmed by us in writing.

Product Questionnaires
In November 2007 we prepared standard Cefic product questionnaires, from Downstream user to Supplier, filled in for our products.  Below you find these questionnaires.
Please note that these questionnaires are posted for your information and only valid for AkzoNobel Base Chemicals and the mentioned products and may not apply to other business units within AkzoNobel and/or other products. 


Standard Cefic questionnaires filled in per product

Aluminium Chloride (English) (Nederlands) (Deutsch) (Francais) (Svenska)

Caustic Soda Lye (English) (Nederlands)  (Deutsch) (Francais) (Svenska)

Chlorine (English)

Demeon D (DME) (English)

Ferric Chloride (FeCl3) (English)  (Nederlands)  (Deutsch) (Francais) (Svenska)

Ferric Chloride Sulphate (FeClSO4) (English)  (Nederlands) (Deutsch) (Francais)

Ferrous Chloride Solution (FeCl2) (English)  (Nederlands)  (Deutsch) (Francais) (Svenska)

Hydrochloric Acid  (English)  (Nederlands)  (Deutsch)  (Francais) (Svenska)