Only representative of a non-Community manufacturer
- A natural or legal person established outside the Community who manufactures a
substance on its own, in preparations or in articles, formulates a preparation or produces an
article that is imported into the Community may by mutual agreement appoint a natural or
legal person established in the Community to fulfill, as his only representative, the
obligations on importers under this Title.
- 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.
- If a representative is appointed in accordance with paragraphs 1 and 2, the non-Community
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.
Source: REACH Article 8