Forum's Open Sessions

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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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Forum open sessions 2023

The Joint Forum-BPRS Open session took place on 9 November 2023 as a virtual meeting.

The open session was attended by 27 representatives from 18 accredited stakeholder organisations (ASOs) and seven representatives from four countries participating in the instrument for pre-accession (IPA) assistance programme.

The stakeholders presented topics related to the enforcement challenges regarding the restriction of tattoo inks, a project on chemicals in textiles, the improvement of dossier compliance by a screening exercise, the consistency of REACH dossiers to improve hazard and risk assessment and an update regarding the REACH registration of Ozone generating devices.

There was a dedicated BPR item, where the BPRS presented the results of their project, BEF-2, on approved active substances in biocidal products, which was being finalised by the end of 2023. Moreover, a stakeholder presented a topic related to the labelling of biocidal products.

The participants were also briefed about the results of the Forum enforcement projects finalised in 2023, namely the REF-10 project on Integrated controls and the pilot project on classification of mixtures including detergents and cleaning products. Additionally, the participants received a summary of the workshop where the results of the project REF-9 on Authorisation were discussed with stakeholders.

Forum invited the ASOs to submit project proposals by 12 April 2024 so they can be part of the 2024 cycle for the selection of enforcement projects (link for the template at the end of the page).

Forums open sessions 2023 table

Agenda item Title Speaker Presentation
  Agenda of the Open session   [PDF]
OS 2.1 Update on the scope of the upcoming REF project Maria Orphanou – CY Forum member, WG Chair [PDF]
OS 2.2.1 REF-10 on Integrated controls Karin Rumar – SE Alternate Forum member, WG Chair (to be added later)
OS 2.2.2 Pilot project on classification of mixtures including detergents and cleaning products Eugen Anwander – AT Forum member, WG Chair [PDF]
OS 2.2.3 Workshop of the project REF-9 on Authorisation Eugen Anwander – AT Forum member, WG Chair [PDF]
OS 3.1 Update on the scope of upcoming BEF project Helmut de Vos - BE BPRS Chair [PDF]
OS 3.2 Results of the BPRS project BEF-2 on approved/non-approved active substances in Biocidal products Jenny Karlsson – SE BPRS member, WG Chair [PDF]
OS 3.3 Enforcement issues: BPR labels and P-statements, Article 95 list and suppliers’ name change Elodie Cazelle (A.I.S.E) [PDF]
OS 4.1 REACH-restriction for substances in tattoo inks and permanent make-up Cornelia Hildebrandt (SMEUnited) [PDF]
OS 4.2 Better Market Surveillance – overview on latest legislative steps and conclusions of the project REACH4Textiles Mauro Scalia Stijn Steuperaert (Euratex) [PDF]
OS 4.3 Lessons learned from a targeted screening exercise on registration dossiers Dunja Drmac (Cefic) [PDF]
OS 4.4 REACH dossier consistency for improved hazard and risk assessment Carol Banner (Concawe) [PDF]
OS 4.5 Registration of in situ generated ozone under REACH: Update Jaak Ryckeboer (EurO3zon ivzw) [PDF]
OS 4 Conclusions and Action points of the Open session   [PDF]