Substances

How the Consortium applied the principles of REACH to the copper value chain

The REACH regulation requires value chains to distinguish between different categories of materials. Click here to see how the ECI Consortium separated those for the copper industry into natural raw materials, substances, preparations and articles.

What products were covered by ECI’s Consortium?

Primary and secondary copper metal; iron silicate from copper production, put on the market; plus a well-defined series of intermediate by-products coming out of the smelting/refining and semi-fabrication processes. (See below list).
Click here to view the Consortium’s position on recovered materials.

The Consortium works closely with the Copper Compound Consortium which is covering a series of copper compounds: copper sulphate, basic copper carbonate, copper oxide, dicopper oxide, cuprous chloride, cupric chloride, copper sulphide, dicopper sulphide, copper nitrate, copper acetate, copper thiocyanate, copper oxychloride, copper dihydroxide, and Bordeaux mixture.
For the Letter of Access of questions related to these compounds, please contact the Copper Compound Consortium here.

While the provision of safety data sheets, down the value chain, is the responsibility of individual manufacturers, ECI’s Consortium provides important, generic guidance and exposure scenarios for the generation of SDS.

Click on the individual boxes below for further information.