Suppliers

BOMcheck provides an easy-to-use declaration tool including step-by-step expert advice which guides the supplier to generate and maintain their substance declarations on the database. The Quick Start Guide explains how suppliers save time by generating one substance declaration for a product family which is manufactured from the same set of materials, and then attaching the list of part numbers in the product family.

Quick Start Guide for suppliers to generate substance declarations on the database

Suppliers can choose to make some part number declarations confidential to certain customers. Suppliers can also e-mail substance declarations data directly from BOMcheck to any of their customers who do not yet have a manufacturer account.

The primary purpose of BOMcheck is to enable suppliers to manage compliance with their REACH obligations to:

  • provide Candidate List substance declarations from October 2008 (Article 33)
  • comply with substance restrictions from June 2009 (Article 67)

All EU suppliers are required to comply with these requirements when they supply articles (i.e. components and sub-assemblies) to the next manufacturer in the supply chain. At the same time, BOMcheck also enables suppliers to provide substance declarations for RoHS, Batteries, Packaging and other restricted substances legislation.

The declaration tool highlights where the REACH and RoHS substances are found in hardware equipment, how the restrictions and declarations requirements apply, the exemptions, the Batteries restrictions and the Packaging restrictions.

The business benefits to suppliers are summarised in the following brochure. Following the expert guidance on BOMcheck also reduces the need for expensive sample testing under the new RoHS Directive.

For further information, please contact Dr Aidan Turnbull
Head of WEEE, RoHS & EcoDesign on +44 (0)1225 748420