According to Article 8 of the REACH Regulation, a natural or legal person established outside the Community who manufactures a substance on its own or in preparations, formulates a preparation or produces an articles imported into the Community may by mutual agreement appoint a natural or legal person established in the Community to fulfil, as his only representative, the obligations on importers regarding the registration of substances. The only representative shall also comply with all other obligations of importers under REACH. The non-Community exporter must inform the importer(s) within the same supply chain of the appointment. These importers are regarded as downstream users for the purposes of REACH