PwC and Royal Haskoning have set up a Shared Service Desk. ‘This collaboration enables us to offer the industry a comprehensive package of services that will be needed in future to fulfil the Reach registration of chemicals,’ said Arno Pouw, member of the Board of Management of PricewaterhouseCoopers. ‘For example, companies will need an independent party who can perform the role of Third Party Representative for their Reach registration or a party that can act for a consortium of companies working together on the registration of a particular chemical.’

Henry Rowe, member of the Board of Management of Royal Haskoning, said, ‘The collective services under the name of the Reach Shared Service Desk and the www.reachonlyrepresentative.eu website have already been up and running for a number of weeks and the interest being shown is overwhelming. We are convinced that this joint venture forms a solid base for providing a first-class service to the chemical industry at home and abroad’.

The new directive requires that a company must control the risks of all chemical substances and preparations that it produces in quantities of more than one tonne, that it imports into the EU, processes, uses or distributes. The combination of PwC and Royal Haskoning actively helps companies by supporting them in the registration of chemicals, gaining insight into strategic risks, gearing the organization to risk management, preventing obligations and avoiding supply problems.

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