Technische Vollständigkeitsprüfung
ECHA carries out a technical completeness check on each incoming registration and PPORD notification as set out in Article 20(2) of the REACH Regulation. This is done to ensure that the dossiers include all the information that is required. The quality or adequacy of the provided data or justifications are not assessed as part of the completeness check.
Completeness checks are performed both on new registrations and updates of existing registrations. All the information in a dossier is checked, whether it is newly submitted or already part of the previous submission. The completeness check can only be successful if all the information in the dossier is complete.
Validation assistant
As a registrant, you can use the IUCLID Validation assistant to simulate the completeness check on your IUCLID dossiers before submitting them to ECHA. The Validation assistant can only predict the outcome of the computer-based part of the completeness check.
Manual verification
Since 2016, completeness checks also include manual verification which means that ECHA checks certain elements of the registration dossier that cannot be checked automatically. The outcome of the manual verification cannot be predicted with the IUCLID Validation assistant. PPORD notifications are not manually checked.
Failures and rejections
If your first submission fails the technical completeness check, you will get four months to correct the information. If your second submission is also incomplete, or you fail to resubmit by the four-month deadline, your submission will be rejected and the data will not be included in ECHA’s databases.
Technische Vollständigkeitsprüfung
- 02 March 2021
CSRs' manual verification in technical completeness checks started on 01 March 2021 - 02 Sep 2020
IUCLID 6.5 October 2020 release - 02 Sep 2020
New template for manufacturing process description of petroleum substances[EN][PDF]
If you have questions related to technical completeness check, use ECHA’s contact form:
- ECHA’s contact form
- In the contact form, select ‘Registration’ under Topic.
Provide the following details related to your question in the ‘Question’ field: - Indicate clearly that your question concerns the technical completeness check.
- If you are still preparing your dossier and need help to understand how to fill in a particular IUCLID section, provide as many details as possible on your situation and approach to fulfil the information requirement.
- If you have already submitted your dossier and need help to understand the completeness check outcome, include the submission number assigned to your submission by ECHA.
- In the contact form, select ‘Registration’ under Topic.
For questions related to the Validation assistant, there is a separate instruction available:
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