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Article 8 Only representative of a non-Great British manufacturerX1F4

United Kingdom

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1 .

A natural or legal person established outside F1Great Britain who manufactures a substance on its own, in F2mixtures or in articles, formulates a mixture or produces an article that is imported into Great Britain may by mutual agreement appoint a natural or legal person established in Great Britain to fulfil, as his only representative, the obligations on importers under this Title.

2 .

The representative shall also comply with all other obligations of importers under this Regulation. To this end, he shall have a sufficient background in the practical handling of substances and the information related to them and, without prejudice to Article 36, shall keep available and up-to-date information on quantities imported and customers sold to, as well as information on the supply of the latest update of the safety data sheet referred to in Article 31.

3 .

If a representative is appointed in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2, the F3non-Great British manufacturer shall inform the importer(s) within the same supply chain of the appointment. These importers shall be regarded as downstream users for the purposes of this Regulation.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 8(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(3) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1577, regs. 1(1)(b), 4(15)(a)(b)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Substituted by Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures, amending and repealing Directives 67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (Text with EEA relevance).

F3

Words in Art. 8(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(4) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1577, regs. 1(1)(b), 4(16)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4

Words in Art. 8 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 1 para. 8(2) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1577, regs. 1(1)(b), 4(14)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Editorial notes

X1

Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission Directives 91/155/EEC, 93/67/EEC, 93/105/EC and 2000/21/EC (Official Journal of the European Union L 396 of 30 December 2006).