Companies

Guidance to enterprises manufacturing, trading in or using chemical products. Definitions:

Applicable EU regulations

  • REACH
  • Classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP)

Applicable Swedish legislation

Definitions 

New enterprise: new in business.

Manufacturer and importer:

  • Manufacturing or importing chemical products to Sweden.
  • Manufacturing or importing articles containing chemical products.
  • Changing the name of a product.

User of chemical products:

  • User of chemical products and articles containing chemical products in the business.
  • Purchaser of chemical products.
Retailer:

  • Retailing chemical products or articles containing chemicals to private consumers.
  • Owner of a shop, store, selling on the internet or by mail order.

Commercial agent:

  • Commercial agent for chemical products.
  • Reporting chemical products to the products register instead of the person responsible for the import to Sweden.

 

Questions relating to industry chemicals:
Tel. +46-8-519 41 111
(hrs. 09:00-11:00 and 13:00-15:00).

Questions relating to pesticides:
Tel. +46-8-519 41 122
(hrs. 09:00-11:00 and 13:00-15:00).

Questions relating to the products register:
Tel: +46-8-519 41 183
(hrs. 09:00-11:00 and 13:00-15:00)

Contact: kemi@kemi.se
Last updated: 2009-08-07
Swedish Chemicals Agency, P.O. Box 2, SE-172 13 Sundbyberg, +46 8 519 41 100, kemi@kemi.se