Stefano Colicchia of Compliance2business

Expertise:

• Chemicals management and REACH consultancy
• Product integrity and Regulatory Affairs
• Management systems
• Business continuity
• Education and training

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About Stefano Colicchia

Stefano has more than 20 years of experience working in chemical manufacturing and trading industries, with a specific focus on product stewardship, compliance, regulatory affairs and quality management.

He has worked for companies as diverse as Novaria (distribution), Kenmore (automotive components) and Lamberti (specialty chemicals). The last 10 years he worked at Azelis – a leading European distributor of specialty chemicals – where, after a series of different managerial positions, he was Director SHEQ.

Stefano has demonstrated communication skills, easily delivering his messages from senior management to professionals in more technical fields. He has delivered papers on the implementation of REACH in Europe, Korea, India, the Unites States and China. He is a well respected keynote speaker.

In 2010, Stefano developed the concept for Compliance2business to serve the regulatory needs of the chemical industry and its downstream users.

About Compliance2business

Compliance2business is active in the field of regulatory consultancy. It provides a wide range of services assisting companies to comply with safety and regulatory requirements, and to maintain product integrity and quality.

Typical beneficiaries of our services are:

• European Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in chemical and related sectors. These companies often do not have the time, staff or focus to deeply monitor and react to critical regulatory developments,
• Medium enterprises in chemical, food and feed sector located outside Europe, with partial or superficial knowledge of EU legislations,
• Downstream users and retailers that need more/better insight in their upstream supply chain compliance
• Large chemical companies which may have specific Product Compliance needs in a given niche.

Reference Clients and Case examples

Compliance2business  assists customers in different industrial areas ranging from small enterprises in rubber and polyurethane business, medium sized chemical distributors, to large downstream users in the automotive industry. Contact us for more information.

You eliminate the cost-hurdle for suppliers to start providing the REACH information you and your customers need

Members pay for their own access to the information exchange portal. Suppliers pay nothing to give members access to their online Product Catalogs. By sharing the cost burden of this important communication process, chemSIX members contribute to a better functioning supply chain communication process.

You can set-up your own online Product Catalog to communicate REACH information efficiently with all your customers

The chemSIX Product Catalog is a pragmatic, fast and affordable solution to communicate registration intentions and other relevant product specific information to customers. It creates a permanent channel for two-way communication between a supplier and its customers thus contributing to more effective supply chain communication. The set-up is fully in line with guidance on supply chain communication created by CEFIC, FECC and DUCC.

You get access to a suite of online tools to conduct and control your REACH/GHS implementation more effectively

As chemSIX member you get access to an online Team Room where you can collaborate with colleagues and/or external advisors and experts. No matter how large or how small the size of your team you are enabled to centrally store and access project documentation, to collaborate on files while maintaining version control, to create and assign tasks, to manage and control deadlines etc. etc. You can even invite your trusted advisor to collaborate with you in the team room at no extra cost.

You get access to an expanding network of REACH and GHS experts providing services and products with member discounts

chemSIX brings together not only buyers and sellers of chemical substances but also a network of independent experts that can support you implementing REACH/GHS. No matter what industry you’re in nor how detailed your question might be, chemSIX will be able to provide the expertise you need in the most cost effective way.  And although the expert network supports non-members as well, members  benefit from special prices.

You get a continuously improved service offering based on feedback from the chemSIX community

We are committed to listen and learn from our members in order to continuously improve our services. Thus we strive to bring effective implementation within REACH of all our members, large and small.

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REACH Seminar: Chemicaliën in het lab… Kan die last een lust worden?

Donderdagmiddag 30 september, zaal G104

Presentatie chemSIX – Joost Dekker

Bij de invoering van REACH hebben producenten, distributeurs en downstream gebruikers allen baat bij een effectieve uitwisseling van informatie door de keten heen. Downstream gebruikers moeten weten waar ze aan toe zijn m.b.t. beschikbaarheid van hun grondstoffen voor hun toepassingen. Producenten moeten inzicht hebben in alle toepassingen voor hun stoffen willen ze die op veilig gebruik kunnen beoordelen. Distributeurs moeten ervoor zorgen dat er antwoorden komen op de vragen van zowel leveranciers als klanten. En elk bedrijf wil zicht blijven houden welke informatie er wanneer en met wie gedeeld is. chemSIX maakt dat mogelijk op een pragmatische en flexibele manier.

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A well functioning information exchange process is important to ensure that as many as possible current uses are covered as identified uses with corresponding Exposure Scenarios within the supply chain.

Considering the thousands of substances to be registered, the various uses of all these substances and the thousands of companies at each stage of the supply chain, communication in the supply chain presents a major challenge and effort for all companies involved.

CEFIC, in close cooperation with FECC and DUCC, has produced the guidance to support the communication of Use information and of Exposure Scenarios (ESs) in the chemical supply chain.

CEFIC strongly recommends that all actors in the supply chain follow the guidance to ensure timely compliance with the requirements of REACH.

The workflow and tools defined by CEFIC are meant to provide the harmonization that is needed for an effective process while allowing companies to adapt them to their specific needs. But although CEFIC has issued tool requirements, it will not make available a tool to support the information exchange process: “It will be the responsibility of each company to develop its own tool”

Dear Raw Material Supplier,

As you will be aware, REACH Regulation (Regulation EC No. 1907/2006) demands all uses of a substance to be identified and the risks to be controlled. Substances that are subject to chemical safety assessment need to be accompanied by exposure scenarios that are communicated up and down the supply chain. As Downstream User, we depend on our suppliers to cover our uses as well as the uses of our customers in their registration dossiers in order to ensure the availability of the substances for our market.

As part of our REACH preparations it is important that we are better informed. This means better insight in

• your registration intentions and relevant deadlines,
• the uses you intend to cover,
• future changes to the safety measures that will be required

Because of the importance of this information for us we have decided to contribute our fair share in the cost of this supply chain communication process by participating in chemSIX, the chemical Substance Information Exchange. chemSIX enables:

• Suppliers to set-up an online product catalog with REACH/CLP information about any number of products and share this information with any number of customers over the full REACH implementation period.
• Buyers/downstream to manage the information exchange with multiple suppliers from one dashboard, making it easier to provide information/feedback for safety assessments in a way that is also manageable for suppliers.

By providing your information through chemSIX  you will contribute to making the information exchange better, faster and more efficient for all involved.

As you will know, it is the right of the Downstream User to make the uses of their substances known to their suppliers 12 Months before the applicable registration deadline (Article 37(2) of REACH), in order to add these uses to the registration dossier.

Therefore,if we do not receive timely information from you, we will, according to Article 37(2) write back to report the specific uses we, as downstream users, want to have covered in your registration dossiers.

If you act as distributor or if you are not the registrant, we ask you to pass this letter up in the supply chain and make sure that we receive the information we need in time.

Should you have any questions, please contact us directly.

We look forward to continue our business with you..

Yours sincerely,

Your Customer

Dear Customer,

As part of our REACH implementation, we are collecting the information necessary to evaluate the hazardous properties of the substances to be registered and to assess their exposure to the environment, worker and/or consumer.

As soon as we have all the relevant information, we (or a registrant further upstream) can do the assessments, after which it is possible to communicate final registration decisions. Taking advantage of the transitional periods for registration this will be in 2018 at the latest.

We are aware that many customers want more & earlier information about registration intentions and the uses that will be covered. From our part, we need to check that all the important uses of downstream customers are known to us so that they can be included in the safety assessment.

To exchange information in a way that is efficient for all, we have decided to use the chemSIX information exchange portal. Using this portal:

• You will receive relevant information as soon as it becomes available (i.e. registration intentions that include supported uses, new risk management measures etc.). This will give you as much lead time as possible to prepare for any changes, should these be expected

• You can provide feedback when new information needs to be included in upstream registration assessments. Fast feedback increases the chances that your new uses are identified in time to be included in upstream safety assessments

• We can efficiently keep each other up-to-date of any relevant new information, over the multi-year REACH implementation period and in time to be useful

The portal, which requires no special training nor investments, will be maintained at least up to the final registration deadline in 2018.  When necessary, our REACH Team and a network of independent REACH experts are available to make sure that the communication process runs smoothly.

You will be provided log-in details and given access to your product information in a separate mail.

For further questions, please contact …

Kind Regards,

Your Supplier