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Table 3 Results of Art. 33(2) information requests on SVHCs in a targeted choice of articles

From: Where are the SVHCs?

513

Information requests were made

334

Information requests were sent out by the online form

110

Answers were received to the information request

102

Answers consisted of easily understandable formulations and were not too complicated and technical1

100

Answers arrived in time

97

Answers were of the same language as the request

68

Answers indicated that the respondent had understood the Art. 33 information duty2

48

Answers arrived within 2 days

45

Answers were of medium length (1–2 pages)

38

Answers mentioned packaging

25

Respondents mentioned their efforts concerning the environmental and sustainability management of their company

22

Answers mentioned the date of the candidate list

16

Respondents mentioned their efforts to substitute SVHCs by less dangerous substances

11

Answers mentioned subassemblies

11

Answers referred to eco-labels

4

Respondents gave support for a safe handling

2

Answers indicated an SVHC content above 0.1%

  1. 1Criterion was the understandability by average students who are not familiar with REACH
  2. 2Criterion was that the answer contained correct statements about the elements of REACH