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EFMA'S REACH ACTIVITIES

Introduction

European Fertilizer Manufacturers Association (Fertilizers Europe) member companies have decided to form a consortium to meet their obligations under REACH. The main task of this consortium is to prepare and conduct a registration process jointly in whole European fertilizer business. The said consortium is organized to cover main fertilizer products and intermediates. The list of substances of interest includes straight fertilizers, as well as components of preparations (eg. NPK) together with related materials like ammonia, acids (nitric, orthophosphoric and sulfuric) and by-products (phosphogypsum, fluosilicic acid).
 

List of substances 
List of substances* (names as in EINECS inventory)


FARM REACH consortium
Substances to be registered by December 2010

  SUBSTANCESUBSTANCE NAME 
(AS IN EINECS INVENTORY)		 CAS No EINECS No   

1

AMMONIA, AQUEOUS SOLUTION

1336-21-6

215-647-6

2

AMMONIA, ANHYROUS

7664-41-7

231-635-3

3

AMMONIUM CHLORIDE

12125-02-9

235-186-4

4

AMMONIUM SULPHATE

7783-20-2

231-984-1

5

UREA

57-13-6

200-315-5

6

HEXAFLUOROSILICIC ACID

16961-83-4

241-034-8

7

NITRIC ACID

7697-37-2

231-714-2

8

ORTHOPHOSPHORIC ACID

7664-38-2

231-633-2

9

AMMONIUM NITRATE

6484-52-2

229-347-8

10

CALCIUM NITRATE

10124-37-5

233-332-1

11

NITRIC ACID, AMMONIUM CALCIUM SALT

15245-12-2

239-289-5

12

POTASSIUM NITRATE

7757-79-1

231-818-8

13

MAGNESIUM NITRATE

10377-60-3

233-826-7

14

SODIUM NITRATE

7631-99-4

231-554-3

15

CALCIUM BIS(DIHYDROGENORTHOPHOSPHATE)

7758-23-8

231-837-1

16

CALCIUM HYDROGENORTHOPHOSPHATE

7757-93-9

231-826-1

17

DIAMMONIUM HYDROGENORTHOPHOSPHATE (DAP)

7783-28-0

231-987-8

18

MAGNESIUM HYDROGENORTHOPHOSPHATE

7757-86-0

231-823-5

19

AMMONIUM DIHYDROGENORTHOPHOSPHATE (MAP)

7722-76-1

231-764-5

20

POTASSIUM DIHYDROGEN ORTHOPHOSPHATE

7778-77-0

231-913-4

21

SUPERPHOSPHATES

8011-76-5

232-379-5

22

SUPERPHOSPHATES, CONCENTRATED

65996-95-4

266-030-3

23

CALCIUM SULFATE (LEAD CONSORTIUM IS EUROGYPSUM)

7778-18-9

231-900-3

24

MAGNESIUM SULPHATE

7487-88-9

231-298-2

25

POTASSIUM SULFATE

7778-80-5

231-915-5

26

CALCIUM CARBONATE (LEAD CONSORTIUM IS CCA-EUROPE)

471-34-1

207-439-9

27

UREA PHOSPHATE (additional identifiers
CAS No. 4401-74-5; EC No. 224-534-0)

4861-19-2

225-464-3

28

CALCIUM DIFLUORIDE

7789-75-5

232-188-7

Update: 8th August 2009

*Notes
1. The above list is not closed and may undergo changes in course of further work in FARM consortium.
2. Substances occurring in hydrated forms are listed in their anhydrate form only.

 

Fertilizers Europe's Approach to NPK’s under REACH

Irrespective of the manufacturing method the final NPK always represents a combination of few components from a basic set limited to: phosphates, nitrates, sulfates, carbonates and chlorides of ammonia, calcium, potassium, sodium and magnesium, urea, microelements (salts or oxides) and some other additives (fillers, colorants, coating materials etc.). Most of these components are also produced for the market as straight fertilizers.

Having the above under consideration, in the purpose of:

  • representing the uniform position of whole fertilizer sector regarding interpretation of REACH rules
  • avoiding numerous registrations of the same substance in different final products
  • increasing the efficiency of whole registration process

We have adopted the following common approach to NPK’s in terms of REACH:

  1. Every complex fertilizer is a preparation irrespective of the manufacturing method used
  2. Only individual components (starting materials or substances intentionally synthesized and/or resulting from a type of manufacturing process) have to be registered
  3. No products of unintended reactions should be registered
  4. Significant impurities should be indicated in registration documents of relevant main substances. In a case of not possible direct determining of the impurities concentrations they should be calculated from chemical analysis (ions concentrations) and declared as a range of theoretically possible concentrations.
  5. Superphosphates produced directly for the market only may be registered as substances under relevant CAS and EINECS numbers.

For information please contact J.A.M. van Balken hvb@efma.be

Fertilizers Europe members agreement on the formation of a consortium pursuant to REACH requirements

Fertilizers Europe members have signed an agreement on the formation of a consortium pursuant to REACH requirements. CEFIC ReachCentrum has been selected to assist in this process.

Membership is open to any applicant fulfilling the membership criteria. The FARM consortium is also open to any European and non-European companies manufacturing or importing Fertilizers and Related Materials, which are similar to one or several of the substances covered. Downstream users and other data holders are invited to play an active role in the work of the consortium.

Description of Fertilizer uses

A Fertilizers Europe Task Force Exposure Scenarios has drafted two Documents one on a description of Fertilizer uses and one on Fertilizer uses per substance. The PROC (The descriptor for process categories) and ERC (Wide dispersive indoor use of reactive substances in open systems) were chosen not only per definition, but based on the ECETOC tools criteria associated with the PROC or ERC definition (as emission factor). Please note that this is a first draft and we 'might have to change some entries after we learn more and more about the exact meaning of the descriptors'.
 

Description of fertilizer uses    Fertilizer use per substance

 

“More information on the FARM Consortium can be found on the web site:
http://www.reachcentrum.eu/EN/consortium-management/consortia-under-reach/farm-reach-consortium.aspx”

Contact details of the FARM Consortium secratariat consortium@reachcentrum.eu

 

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