GISG Services, based in Kuantan, Malaysia, is K&L’s new partner for REACH Services in the Asian-Pacific region. As a chemical engineer with sound and long time experience in international companies like BASF, Selva Chelliah, managing director and owner of GISG Services, is the perfect link for Asia-pacific based companies to the REACH Services from K&L.
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BAuA (Bundesanstalt für Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Federal institute for safety at work and industrial medicine) is the German competent authority for REACH, the so called MSCA in Germany. BAuA offers platforms to discuss crucial questions concerning the registration for chemicals under REACH. Only afterwards can local inquires out of Germany be escalated to ECHA. Accordingly, [...]

Regarding the Copyright Levies for PCs in Germany, the industry is split: there are PC tariffs published on 29 April 2010 by the Collecting Society ZPÜ (Zentralstelle für private Überspielungsrechte) – which, however, have been rejected by the industry. The manufacturer association BCH (Bundesverband der Computerhersteller) meanwhile agreed upon their own tariff – which runs [...]

Finally, a Russian Collecting Society is officially authorized! However, it is none of those which so far were supposed to be selected.
Negotiations about copyright levies in Russia are apparently over. On 14 October 2010, the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 829 finally approved the negotiated scope and tariffs. A few days [...]

Members of a consortium or a SIEF have to decide if the CSR is part of the Joint Submission or not (Article 11.1). There are three different procedures to choose.
1. Joint CSR for all registrants:
The Lead Registrant submits Part A and Part B in behalf of all members of the joint registration.
This procedure has the advantage [...]