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We are pleased to announce the opening of our new sales office in France.
Director Sales and Logistics France will be Mr. Olivier Laigle, a highly experienced professional in the trade of base oils and Chemicals.
He will be your contact as of April 2nd, 2007 and can be reached as follows

hocem Representative Office France
Mr. Olivier Laigle
834 Rue Deregnaucourt
59310 Auchy Les Orchies
France

Phone: 00 33 3 20 34 77 90
GSM: 00 33 6 30 82 98 79
Fax: 00 33 3 20 34 81 02
E-Mail: office-france@hocem.de
Website: www.hocem.com

In our first newsletter we informed you about the new EU legislation REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) which will come into force as of June 1st, 2007.

The current EU chemical policy consists of around 40 different legislative instruments. While new substances are intensely tested before they receive market approval this does not exist for substances introduced to the market before September 1981.

In order to stop the different handling of ‘new’ and ‘old’ chemical substances the EU legislation adopted in November 2006 the new REACH legislation which had its beginning as a first draft in October 2003.

The purpose of this legislation is a high level of protection for both health and the environment, to ensure free traffic for substances within the EU market and to balance this with the improvement of both, competitiveness and innovation.
Maxim of this legislation is that importers, manufacturers as well as downstream user shall only import, produce or use substances which do not pose a threat to human health and the environment.

Main objectives

• harmonized registration system of all (about 30.000) new and existing chemicals which are imported into or manufactured in the EU
• Importers and manufacturers will take responsibility of proof that their products will pose no threat to human health and the environment.
• downstream user need to provide detailed information with regard to handling and risk of substances.
• greater transparency to the public.
• supervision of REACH through the European Chemical Agency.

Timing

More important is the time frame set before REACH is fully implemented.
Depending on the annual tonnage imported or produced the following registration periods will apply after REACH will come into force on June 1st, 2007.

• pre-registration phase (about 18 months)
• registration of all substances from > 1000 t/a within 3 years (2010)
• registration of all substances from 10-100 t/a within 6 years (2013)
• registration of all substances from 1-10 t/a within 11 years (2018)

CMR substances (Carciogenic, Mutagenic, Reprotoxic) > 1t/a as well as high concern substances of classification N (R50-53) > 100t/a need also registration within the first 3 years.

Substances without registration will be excluded from further use or marketing.

In the following newsletters we will take a look at the registration process and the documentation needed.

Fans of vintage cars already have the date in mind – from April 23th to April 28th, 2007 the “Tour Auto Lissac” will take place in France.

Starting at the Grand Palais on the Champs Elysées in Paris the route of the historic cars will go via Poitiers, Sarlat, Albi and Vichy to finish in Evian after six exciting days.

This will be the second great worldwide known rally event within short time in which our chairman Mr. Albrecht Haase and his wife Christine will take part after their participation in “La Carrera Panamericana 2006” and they are looking forward to the sportive competition.

You can receive more detailed information about “Tour Auto Lissac” at the official website www.tour-auto.com.