Regulation 1907/2006/EC Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals ("REACH")

Darton Commodities completed its REACH Registration Cobalt Dossier Joint Submission on 22 November 2010.

Darton Commodities is a founder member of the Cobalt REACH Consortium - Blue Consortium for the substance Cobalt (EC number 231-158-0).

For further information about the Blue Consortium, please visit: http://www.cobaltreachconsortium.org/BLUE

Substance Information Exchange Forum ("SIEF")

The Secretariat of the Cobalt REACH Consortium is supporting the Consortium members with the SIEF communications.

The Consortium is providing a separate web-based forum to facilitate the exchange of information about the cobalt substance between the SIEF (Active Group) members.

Please visit the CoRC website http://www.cobaltreachconsortium.org/SIEF-INFO or contact The Secretariat REACH-SIEF@thecdi.com for more information.

Down Stream Users

The Blue Consortium has identified many Uses for the substance Cobalt which are posted on the CoRC website http://www.cobaltreachconsortium.org/BLUE

Any Downstream User Groups or Associations should contact The Secretariat for more information http://www.cobaltreachconsortium.org/contact

Other Substances

Darton Commodities has Pre-Registered for a number of other metal based substances.