Published: 2022
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The European Chemicals Agency's Enforcement Forum for Exchange of Information on Enforcement (Forum) has finalised its eighth REACH-EN-FORCE (REF) project, where the compliance of certain CLP, REACH and BPR duties related to substances, mixtures and articles sold online were assessed. This was an EU-wide enforcement project carried out during 2020 in 29 countries of the EEA and Switzerland (BPR duties only). When inspecting the offers of products sold online, inspectors could evaluate their compliance with: the CLP Regulation in regard to: o i) whether the online advertisement of a hazardous mixture provides information to the customer about the type of hazard as indicated on the label; or o ii) for hazardous substances, whether the customer is informed about the hazard class and/or the applicable hazard category; the REACH obligation for the most updated version of the safety data sheet (SDS) to be supplied/available with the hazardous substance or mixture for industrial/professional uses in an official language of the receiving Member State or upon request; specific entries of REACH Annex XVII: products or articles containing restricted substances such as cadmium and nickel in jewellery, phthalates in childcare products and toys and CMRs7 (the full list of restrictions assessed in this project can be found in Table 3b); and BPR duties, which were assessed by checking the online advertisement of the biocidal product (BP) and whether it was the sale of an authorised BP or made available under transitional measures. This report outlines the project, conclusions and recommendations for companies, the Enforcement Forum, national authorities, the European Commission and the public. The project targeted all potential companies (web shops and marketplaces) selling or mediating online hazardous substances, mixtures, biocidal products or articles subject to REACH, CLP and/or BPR requirements (private sellers excluded). Member States/inspectors decided which regulations to investigate under this project, depending on their own national enforcement strategy and the division of authorities' responsibilities. The inspected companies were situated within the enforcement authority's own country, within the EU or outside the EU.