The Forum holds its open sessions once a year back-to-back with the last Forum meeting of the year. All ECHA Accredited Stakeholders (ASO) are invited to participate.

A call for interest and request to submit proposals for presentations is launched at the end of the summer each year.

The ASOs are invited to bring of issues they wish to highlight and discuss with the Forum.

The discussions are seen as beneficial for both sides as they served to clarify, in general terms, the NEA approaches and existing activities in Member States.

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The Forum's 2018 open session took place on 14 November 2018 in Brussels. For the first time, this open session was prepared jointly with the Forum Biocidal Products Regulation Subgroup (BRPS).

The open session was attended by 24 representatives of 17 accredited stakeholder organisation (ASO) and five representatives of the instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance Programme.

Six ASOs presented topics they considered relevant to their members, covering the enforcement issues related to REACH, CLP, PIC and Biocidal Product regulations. The ASOs brought to the Forum varied issues, from ways in which DUs address differences between exposure scenarios sent by suppliers to the management of tanks for biocidal Active Substances (see table below).

Opportunities for improvement of the quality of the Safety Data Sheets (SDS) were discussed during the open session. The Forum, in cooperation with various ASOs, established a joint Working Group (WG) to analyse the most common deficiencies found in SDSs and discuss ways in which stakeholder organisations can work on overcoming them. This WG will continue its work in 2019 and report in the next open session.

The participants were also briefed about the results of the enforcement projects finishing in 2018, such as the pilot project on the online sales, PIC and the REF-5 project on extended SDS and exposure scenarios focusing on duties related to flow of information in the supply chain. The latter two reports will be published by the end of 2018. The Forum also invited the ASOs to submit new proposals for its 2019 cycle of selecting enforcement projects.