Case Studies
Understanding the challenges that regulations and environmental issues may bring to the companies, governments and institutions we work together with our customers to provide customised solutions to reach the best competitive advantage taking into account their internal processes, role and position on the marketplace.
Through our multidisciplinary team and local partners we help our customers to spot the hurdles of the regulations in their businesses and make them more sustainable.
We invite you to see some examples about our customer's problems and the solution provided.
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CASE 1: International Chemicals Trader
Problem: The trader did not have a dedicated EHS(Q) compliance organisation to manage corporation wide compliances in different regions of the world due to several recent restructurings of the company. The trader had significant chemical compliance requirements within the EU as a result of the REACH / CLP Regulations and resources to comply with these were unorganized.
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CASE 3: Global Compliance – International metal Company
Problem: The Client places various metal grades and raw materials on the market globally and needs to ensure that the products are complying with local and regional regulatory requirements. To be able to ensure and manage compliance the Client has to understand which individual legal market access requirements apply to their type of products.
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CASE 4: Consortium Representation – EU Mining & Metals company
Problem: The company has significant REACH and CLP obligations by having to Register and Notify several substances that are covered by dedicated industry REACH Consortia. The company did not have capable resources to participate in the consortium registration and notification management work to ensure proper coverage of their specific issues.
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CASE 5: Public Sector – Ministry of Environment
Problem: The Latin-American country signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the European Union. Under this agreement the Ministry of environment has the responsibility for assessing the environmental impacts that the FTA may bring to the country, once the agreement is ratified. The Ministry of environment didn’t know which environmental impact assessment tool would be the best to be implemented in order to measure the environmental impacts.
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CASE 6: Large Manufacturer – REACH
Problem: Customer has to ensure REACH compliance as a non-EU actor for a multitude of manufacturing legal entities and a vast product portfolio covering intermediates and other chemicals, semi-finished products and substances occurring in nature. For many of the chemicals CAS or EINECS numbers were not assigned in the safety data sheets and substance identification was complex. Subsidiaries in several EU Member States were available to take on the role of REACH registrant as either an only representative or importer.
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CASE 7: Consortia and Lead Registrant – Company group
Problem: No other company volunteered to become lead registrant for the substance. Until the first quarter of 2010 no relevant SIEF activity took place. Customer’s EU market access following 30.11.2010 was at stake.
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CASE 8: Legal Services – Trading group
Problem: The trading group is looking to have one of its EU legal entities as registrant under REACH for the substances imported to EU in order to ensure independent EU market access, but without changing its current business operating structures, if possible. As non-EU traders cannot appoint only representatives under REACH Article 8, the only option left is to install one of the EU group legal entities as REACH importer for the traded substances. If the importer role of a registering EU legal entity is not recognized by REACH competent authorities, the registrations could be void and legal access to EU market closed.
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CASE 9: Risk analysis
Problem: At the entry into force of REACH, the legal implications of appointing an only representative were unclear. The customer needed assistance in understanding the legal status of the only representative, the obligations and liabilities following an only representative appointment in order to choose a suitable strategy for implementing REACH.
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CASE 2: Downstream User – European Space Industry
Problem: Mission critical components and chemicals must be available now and in the future and how to manage associated risks.