13 FAQ: COMPETITIVENESS
  13.1 Confidentiality
    13.1.1 How will the new legislation ensure confidentiality of information with a public list of chemical substances?
How does REACH ensure transparency?
    13.1.2 How is commercially sensitive information safeguarded?
    13.1.3 Will REACH require exact formulas of preparations to be revealed?
  13.2 SMEs
   
13.2.1
 Could different requirements be introduced for SMEs?
   
13.2.2
 Due to the big differences between the large-scale enterprises and SMEs on financing, technology, and human resource, SMEs will face more difficulties in compliance with REACH administration than large-scale enterprises. How did the European Commission balance the different interests between the large-scale enterprises and SMEs?
   
13.2.3
 How are the interests of SMEs addressed then?
  13.3 Trade issues
   
13.3.1
 REACH will affect the chemical trade inevitably and may lead to trade unbalance and disputes after its entry into force. How is the European Commission going to resolve these potential problems?
   
13.3.2
 On the implementation of REACH, is it possible to allow a deferment for developing countries and provide certain financial, technical assistance referring to the implementation of the provision concerning protection of ozonosphere in Montreal Protocol?
   
13.3.3
 Which measures will the EU take to reduce the negative impacts of the REACH Regulation on trade?
   
13.3.4
 Are substances that are exported from the EU within the scope of REACH?
   
13.3.5
 Any ideas on how to eliminate the negative impact on chemical substances exported from non-EU countries to EU after entry into force of REACH regime?
  13.4 Innovation
   
13.4.1
 How will REACH promote innovation and the development of safer substitutes?
  13.5 Impact assessment
   
13.5.1
 Will the current produced and imported volumes of single substances and of the substances within preparations, be available also with the relevant breakdown through out all the production chain of the chemicals, for DUs, in order to estimate the impact of REACH for this sector? How can the impact on chemicals be estimated which are produced (within or outside EU) by means of other chemicals, which are unknown DUs.
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