Notification of change in the BASTA system
To all our participating suppliers
From 1 of January 2014, two changes in the property criteria will be introduced in to the BASTA system. We have noticed that the link to which we refer in our previous notice does not work anymore. This is why we are currently sending out updated information with the correct link.
In addition, a number of clarifications and other changes have been made among the properties criteria (see below). These have been incorporated into the criterion documents, which were posted on the website during week 26.
It is therefore important that you as a supplier in the system, well before the changes take effect, review your products in accordance to the new BASTA and BETA criteria.
The changes in the property criteria are as follows:
Tightening of BASTA criteria (effective 2014-01-01)
Endocrine disrupting The criterion will cover the substances which will receive the overall assessment Cat 1 or Cat 2 in EU’s – EDC Database, which therefore may not be present in concentrations of 0.1% or higher. EU’s – EDS Database can be downloaded at: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/endocrine/strategy/being_en.htm To extract the database, please follow these instructions:
•Download the zipped file to your hard-disk
•Unzip the file and run the database (by a double-click on the mdb-file).
•Choose ”Categorisation” in order to view the substances that are included in the database.
Minimum requirement: MS Access 2003 or later. We will continue to work with endocrine disruptor criterion as we have found this criterion to be an evolving and changing criterion.
Nanoparticles If a product contains nanoparticles, this information needs to be included in the assessment documents. Information regarding products containing nanoparticles should also be provided to customers on request.
Criteria 3a
Dual concentration limits are being introduced as we have passed the date when the concentration limit for goods was lowered to match the REACH information requirements. The requirements state that information must be provided for products which contain 0.1% or more of the substances found on the candidate list.
BETA concentration limits for Lead (Pb)
We are introducing a clarification in the BETA properties criteria which states that the exemption from the concentration limit of 0.1% for lead only applies to the product categories which are included in the RoHS directive, see http://www.kemi.se/sv/Innehall/Fragor-i-fokus/Elektrisk-och-elektronisk-utrustning—RoHS-direktivet/
Mercury (Hg)
We have removed the rows concerning low energy light bulbs and fluorescent tubes from the BETA properties criteria. The footnote states that exemptions under the RoHs directive stands.
Criteria 14, option 2 (applies to BASTA not BETA): Toxicity after single exposure
In this criteria STOT-SE had incorrectly become STOS-SE, which we now have rectified.
Criteria 16, option 2 (applies to BASTA not BETA): Volatile organic compounds.
H302 (harmful if swallowed) has correctly been replaced by H304 (may be fatal whence swallowed if it reaches the airways).
We want to thank all our participating suppliers for your support of BASTA.
Yours sincerely,
Per Löfgren and Anna Widheden
BASTAonline AB