Substitution and analysis of alternatives of the most hazardous biocidal active substances are topics of growing interest. This webinar features several tools and initiatives that support companies in moving to safer alternatives. The event is of particular interest for applicants of biocidal active substances, downstream users, suppliers of alternatives, authorities and consultants.

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More on the topic:
Substitution to safer chemicals
New framework guidance and reporting template published in January 2023
Implementation note 

This webinar focuses on identifying and sharing best practice on how to provide information on alternatives. The webinar will also inform how the consultations in applications for authorisation work in general.  The webinar is based on lessons learned from over 50 consultations carried out so far. It also gives an opportunity for ECHA to get feedback to further develop the consultation process.

The webinar will consist of a presentation from ECHA followed by a panel discussion with Frida Hök from the International Chemical Secretariat (Chemsec), Hugo Waeterschoot from the European Association of the Metals Industry (Eurometaux), Jan Ahlskog from Finsbury International Policy & Regulatory Advisers (FIPRA) and Julius Waller from EPPA.

The webinar explains how ECHA assesses the regulatory needs of groups of substances and how this approach helps speed up regulatory action for substances of concern – and what information ECHA has started to publish to better inform companies and citizens about the foreseen action towards a safer use of chemicals.

Questions and answers from the event.

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As a follow-up to the proposed restriction on the use of lead in shot in wetlands, ECHA has been requested by the commission to prepare a restriction proposal on the placing on the market and use of lead in ammunition (shot and bullets) and fishing tackle.

This information session is intended to clarify the scope of ECHA’s investigation and answer your questions related to the call for evidence.

The session is intended for stakeholders planning to provide relevant information for the preparation of the restriction proposal. The call for evidence is open until 16 December 2019.

The session is open to all. The maximum capacity is 1 000 participants.

Media are invited to send their enquiries to press [at] echa.europa.eu.

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Further information:

Q&A from the online information session

This information session is intended to clarify the scope and answer your questions related to the call for evidence for the possible restriction on intentionally added microplastics in products of any kind.

The session is targeted at stakeholders planning to provide relevant information for the preparation of the restriction proposal. The call for evidence is open until 11 May 2018.

The session is open-to-all. The maximum capacity is 1 000 participants. 

The most frequently asked questions and their answers will be published on this page after the event.

Media are invited to send their enquiries to press [at] echa.europa.eu.

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Further information

Call for evidence

ECHA to consider restrictions on the use of oxo-plastics and microplastics, ECHA news 17 January 2018

Q&A from the online information session

The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) announced its intention to propose a restriction of PAHs, furans, dioxins, PCBs and formaldehyde in single-use nappies for infants and children.

We will host a call for evidence to support the preparation of the proposal. The call for evidence starts in January 2020 and closes on 31 March 2020.

This information session is intended to clarify the scope of ANSES’ investigation and answer your questions related to the call for evidence. It is open for all, and will be most useful for those planning to provide information for the preparation of the restriction proposal. 

Media are invited to send their enquiries to press [at] echa.europa.eu.

Podcast

Interview with Karine Fiore, Regulatory and Socio-Economic Projects Manager from the French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES).

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This webinar explains the communication and notification obligations that EU importers, producers and suppliers of articles may have when their articles contain Candidate List substances. Particular focus is given to complex objects made up of more than one article.

This webinar is relevant for any company preparing a REACH registration dossier.

It focusses on experience gained since the revised completeness check was introduced in June 2016. You will also get valuable insight into the manual checks performed by ECHA staff as part of the completeness check.

During the webinar, you can send your questions to our experts. Note that we cannot answer questions on specific submissions - you can send those to us using our contact form.

The European Commission has revised some of the information requirements for registering chemicals under REACH (Action 1, Action 2). This webinar focuses on the new and amended completeness check rules brought by this revision to help you prepare a complete registration dossier. We also give you an overview of the process in general.

Completeness check will be aligned with the revised information requirements in May 2023, after the next major IUCLID release.

Update 12 April 2023: Following a postponement of the next IUCLID release, the new and amended completeness checks will take effect as of 1 June 2023.

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List of new and amended completeness check rules

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French authorities propose to restrict PAHs, furans, dioxins, formaldehyde and PCBs in single-use baby diapers. The aim is to minimise health risks associated with wearing single-use diapers for children and infants under the age of three.

A consultation on the proposal was launched on 21 December and will end on 21 June 2021.

This info session gives an update on the proposed restriction, explains the specific questions posed in the consultation and clarifies how to submit comments.

Questions and answers from the event.

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Germany has prepared a restriction proposal on Perfluorohexanoic acid (PFHxA) related substances. A 6 month consultation started on 25 March.

PFHxAs are very versatile and have been used in various sectors such as clothing, polymers and fire extinguishing agents. Their persistent and mobile properties make the control of emissions and exposure difficult, and they can cause adverse effects to our health and the environment.

This info session gives an update on the proposed restriction, clarifies its scope and how to prepare and submit comments in the consultation.

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ECHA has published its proposal to restrict the use of lead in ammunition for hunting and outdoor sports shooting as well as in fishing.

A six-month consultation was launched on 24 March 2021.

This information session introduces the REACH restriction process, describes the proposed restriction on lead in outdoor shooting and fishing and explains how to submit comments to the consultation.  

Questions and answers from the event.

Further information:

• Have your say on proposed restriction of lead in outdoor shooting, hunting and fishing, 24 March 2021
• Towards sustainable outdoor shooting and fishing – ECHA proposes restrictions on lead use, 3 February 2021
• Hot topics: lead in shot, bullets and fishing weights
   

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Presentations

• All slides into one [PDF] - Mark Blainey, Christiaan Logtmeijer, Peter Simpson

The Data Uploader can be used to convert chemical data into IUCLID format. It is especially useful for converting legacy toxicity data into harmonised templates that can be stored in a IUCLID database. It can be used for example by owners of chemical databases to share their data in an internationally recognised format.

It is developed as a KNIME Analytics Platform plug-in, using several workflow nodes:

• Connection to a IUCLID database
• Selection of relevant IUCLID documents and fields
• Mapping with an external data source
• Validation of the data against the IUCLID format
• Generation of IUCLID files (.i6z)
• Uploading to IUCLID
• Incremental update

In this webinar, we will help you get started with the Data Uploader and guide you through the different workflow steps.

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The webinar aims to update downstream users on recent activities that will help them use chemicals safely and fulfil their duties under REACH. The topics will include how downstream users can benefit from the latest work done to improve the information in the supply chain, how to prepare a downstream user chemical safety report and how to notify ECHA on authorised uses. The event will highlight the support that is available to support downstream users.

An overview of the information available on the ECHA website that is helpful to downstream users. This includes registration and C&L details on the substances they receive, and if any restriction or authorisation applies.

A major update of the Guidance for Downstream Users was published in December 2013. This webinar outlines the structure, the main content of each section and the significant changes in the Guidance. It aims to help the reader to quickly find information in the Guidance that is relevant for his needs.

Further Information

Information for downstream users on the ECHA website

The criteria for identifying endocrine disrupting properties for biocides apply from 7 June. This webinar explains the scope of the criteria and how authorities are using them to assess biocides. We also go through the main advice in the newly published guidance on endocrine disruptors.

The webinar provides an overview of the ePIC tool used by industry to meet their obligations under the Prior Informed Consent Regulation. It will cover basic aspects of the tool such as the interface, buttons, search functions and other features.

ECHA has investigated the environmental and health risks posed by using PFASs in firefighting foams at the request of the European Commission. The Agency concluded that an EU-wide restriction is justified as the risks posed by PFASs are currently not adequately controlled and releases should be minimised.

A six-month consultation starts on 23 March and will be open for anyone to give evidence-based comments on the restriction proposal.

This info session explains the restriction process and helps those interested to take part in the consultation.

Questions and answers from the event

We are revamping our regulatory submission systems: REACH-IT, ePIC, R4BP 3 and the ECHA Submission Portal.

These systems allow companies to comply with their obligations under REACH, CLP, PIC, the Biocidal Products Regulation, and the Waste Framework Directive.

We are building a unified portal for industry, centralising interactions between duty holders across various regulatory frameworks.

In this event we present the overall approach and next steps.

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This webinar helps you to get ready for preparing and submitting a SCIP notification.

You will get a demo of how to create and submit a notification and learn the tools that can be used to refer to information already successfully submitted to the SCIP database.

More about SCIP

Date: 19 Nov 2020
Time: 11:00 – 15:00 Helsinki Time (EET, GMT+2)

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The webinar introduces you to the new version of the Chemical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool, Chesar 3.0. It is mainly targeted to those who are not yet familiar with the tool but it is also useful for those who want to learn more about the changes between Chesar 2.0 and Chesar 3.0.

To be able to follow this webinar you are expected to know the basics of chemical safety assessment.

The webinar will last 3 hours (from 10 a.m to 13 p.m), followed by a 1 hour break. After the break, we will continue with a question and answer session for up to 2 hours (14 p.m. to 16 p.m.).

Chesar website: https://chesar.echa.europa.eu/

This webinar is of interest for downstream users and downstream user sector organisations who want to optimise the communication of safe use information in the supply chain.

Participants will learn about the sector use map concept, its benefits, and its implementation.

Downstream users need to ensure they meet the conditions described in the exposure scenarios they receive. It is key that these exposure scenarios reflect the conditions of use in place, where those can be demonstrated to be safe. Exposure scenarios are generated by registrants. Therefore downstream users need to communicate to registrants how their substances are used. Sector use maps are an efficient way of communicating such information to registrants.

Sector use maps avoid the need for bilateral contacts between downstream users and registrants and ensure that downstream users receive realistic and harmonised exposure scenarios, making them easier to process.

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Updated REACH Annexes for the nanoforms of substances begin to apply as of 1 January 2020. The updated Annexes introduce new concepts: nanoform and a set of similar nanoforms. The updated REACH Annex VI also defines specific characterisation parameters for the nanoforms of substances.

The first part of this webinar explains what a nanoform is and how to build a set of similar nanoforms. It also explains how to fulfil data requirements for the characterisation of nanoforms. The second part introduces new IUCLID fields for reporting the characterisation parameters of nanoforms and gives some practical examples on how to use the different fields. You will also have the chance to ask questions from our experts.

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EUCLEF will be launched in March. It is a new service from ECHA that puts 40 pieces of EU chemicals legislation at your fingertips, enabling you to find out how your substances are regulated in the EU and what legal obligations you have.

Join our webinar to get a sneak preview of how the finder works and ask questions from our experts.

• Webinar Q&A
• More about EUCLEF

The webinar is intended for industry to receive an introduction on:

1. ECHA Cloud services and the IUCLID Cloud for SMEs
2. How to subscribe to the cloud and manage your account
3. How to use the cloud and create a dossier

You will have the chance to ask questions from our expert panel.

Welcome to the REACH 2018 Spring School!

During this intensive week, we will be broadcasting all the REACH 2018 phase webinars again with the possibility to ask questions from our experts. In addition, a new webinar: Getting your chemical safety assessment done will take place live from Helsinki on Day 3 of the Spring School, Wednesday 17 May.

Here you can register for the third day taking place on Wednesday 17 May.

During the day, we will broadcast a new webinar on getting your chemical safety assessment done and you will have the chance to ask questions.

This webinar introduces how the GreenScreen methodology and tool enable you to compare substances on multiple hazard endpoints and rank them according to four benchmarks. You will hear examples of how companies and authorities use it to find safer alternatives to substances of concern.

You will also have the chance to ask questions from the presenters.

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Note: Some parts of this webinar are no longer up to date. For the latest information, refer to our more recent webinars on IUCLID.

The webinar covers a feature for SMEs, launched in December 2017 that provides an alternative method for preparing IUCLID dossiers using IUCLID Cloud. This feature, named ‘Guided dossier preparation for REACH 2018’, presents an SME with a series of well-defined tasks to complete based on the type of dossier they intend to submit to us. The guided approach includes task-specific help and links to relevant guidance documents and texts.

ECHA and Member State Competent Authorities are now in the fourth year of common screening. In late January every year, a number of substances are marked for manual screening by Member States. The selection is based on a set of algorithms to identify substances that may have hazardous properties and have the potential for exposure to humans or the environment.

This webinar explains the screening process, its timelines, and the criteria for short listing. It also explains how registrants can influence the manual screening process by updating their dossiers and how they can obtain more information on common screening.

The webinar also gives advice on how registrants should react to the informative letters sent by ECHA to all registrants of shortlisted substances.

ECHA and Member State Competent Authorities are now in the third year of common screening. In late January every year approximately 200-300 substances are earmarked for manual screening by Member State experts based on an extensive set of algorithms to identify substances that may pose risk to human health or the environment. The short listed substances are grouped in terms of both the suspected hazardous properties and also the REACH/CLP regulatory process that may be the optimal next step. ECHA has recently written to nearly 1 500 companies informing them that their registration dossiers may soon be manually examined by Member State experts to confirm the need for further regulatory action. This webinar will explain the screening process, its timelines, and the criteria for short listing. The webinar will also explain how registrants can influence the manual screening process by updating their dossiers and how they could obtain more information on common screening.

The questions and answers from the webinar are available here.

In January every year, a number of substances are marked for manual screening by Member States. The selection aims to identify substances that may have hazardous properties and the potential for exposure to us or the environment.

This webinar explains the screening process, its timelines, and the criteria for shortlisting. It also explains how registrants can influence the manual screening process by updating their dossiers and how they can get more information on common screening.

The webinar also gives advice on how registrants should react to informative letters sent by us to all registrants of shortlisted substances.

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Q&A on screening of substances of potential concern >>

This webinar provides feedback to Registrants on how to submit information on chemical substances in the technical dossier to ECHA in compliance with REACH.
 

This webinar provides feedback to Registrants on how to submit information on chemical substances in the technical dossier to ECHA in compliance with REACH.

This webinar provides feedback to Registrants on how to submit information on chemical substances in the technical dossier to ECHA in compliance with REACH.

Note: this webinar contains out of date information. For the most up-to-date advice, refer to the latest webinars and guidance.

This webinar is for you if you work or plan to work with an application for product authorisation for a biocidal product family.

The aim of the webinar is to give you an overview of the state of play on biocidal product families in the EU. You will also hear about practical experience gained by a national authority and industry on the revised biocidal product family concept.

You can watch the webinar here or directly on our home page on the day of the event at 11:00 Helsinki time (EEST, GMT +3).

A live online Q&A session will take place when the webinar is published until 13:00 (GMT +3). You can join it here.

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Biocidal product families

Questions and answers

This online information session presents the practical guide How to submit CLH dossiers. The guide gives advice to dossier submitters on what to check before submitting the CLH dossier with the aim of reducing the number of dossiers for which an update is needed. 

Questions and answers from the event.

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Moderator: Stella Jones, Head of Unit, Hazard I

Update June 2022

• Practical guide
• Results of the survey

This event was a follow-up of our previous webinar on how to submit harmonised classification and labelling dossiers that took place on 26 May 2021.

It focussed on:

• Results of the survey on the challenges dossier submitters face in preparing harmonised classification and labelling dossiers
• Feedback on the practical guide that was collected after the previous webinar

Other presentations included biocides, read across and EFSA on plant protection products.

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Questions and answers from the webinar

The webinar is of interest to all Member State harmonised classification and labelling dossier submitters for REACH chemicals but also for active substances used in biocides and plant protection products.

If you have any questions, contact us: classification (at) echa.europa.eu.

This webinar gives you the latest information about ECHA’s and industry’s action plans for addressing the lack of compliance of REACH registration dossiers. The webinar is an opportunity for you to learn about the overall context and impact of upcoming changes and how you can prepare.

You will have the chance to ask questions from our experts.

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As of 1 January 2019, we will start checking the compliance of all relevant dossiers for a given substance and will address decisions to all registrants with non-compliant dossiers. This is a change from the current practice of addressing mainly lead registrants. Similarly, we will address our decisions on testing proposals to those registrants who plan to use a proposed test to fulfill their information requirement.

This information session presented the changes and gave participants the chance to ask questions.

This online information session will provide an update on the proposed restriction on the placing on the market of intentionally-added microplastics, which was submitted to ECHA’s scientific committees on 11 January 2019. Following the required conformity check, a 6 month public consultation on the proposal started on 20 March. This webinar will introduce the detail of the proposal and clarify the objectives of the public consultation.

The session will also provide an opportunity for our panel of experts to answer any questions on the proposal and how to prepare and submit any comments in the consultation.

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This webinar describes the new functionalities of Chesar 3.6, focusing on the implementation of a set of harmonised conditions of use for workers’ assessments. These conditions of use are the result of a mapping exercise with the owners of the most used workers’ assessment tools (i.e. ECETOC TRA, ART, Stoffenmanager, MEASE and EMKG-expo-tool).

Webinar Q&A

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This webinar describes the state of play of the SCIP database, following the launch of its prototype in February. Join our webinar for a demo of how to create and submit a SCIP notification and use the opportunity to ask questions from our experts.

SCIP is a database for information on substances of concern in articles as such or in complex objects (products) established under the Waste Framework Directive.

Companies supplying articles containing substances of very high concern (SVHCs) on the Candidate List in a concentration above 0.1% weight by weight (w/w) on the EU market have to submit information on these articles to ECHA, as of 5 January 2021.

Webinar Q&A

The webinar provides an introduction to the OECD QSAR Toolbox and its functionalities. Two examples cover endpoints which will be relevant for the third REACH registration deadline in 2018 (e.g. skin sensitisation, aquatic toxicity). The Toolbox is the most comprehensive, widely recognised and freely available platform for data gap filling in regulatory hazard assessment, while avoiding tests. It is used for grouping chemicals into categories, identifying and filling (eco-)toxicological data gaps for the hazard assessment of chemicals. The Toolbox is also very useful for screening and prioritising inventories.

The webinar provides an overview of the basic concepts of IUCLID as well as an introduction to the new features of IUCLID 5.5

The webinar introduces the latest version of IUCLID (version 6.7) to be released at the end of May 2023.

This version reflects the first format changes since October 2021, and contains the latest Data Reporting standards as agreed at the OECD level, as well as updates to other formats that support Data Reporting for specific regulations in EU, New Zealand and Australia.

This version also contains a range of improvements to IUCLID functionalities that will support the data entry and export, as well as the re-use of data (see the highlights here).

The webinar gives an overview of the format changes and new functionalities.

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This webinar is intended for more advanced users of IUCLID 6. It builds on feedback received from users after the IUCLID 6 release and addresses the most frequently asked questions and issues. We will also inform you about upcoming IUCLID service releases. We will conclude the webinar with a live Q&A session where our panellists reply to your questions.

This webinar introduces the latest IUCLID 6 version (5.15.0) released on 28 April 2021.

IUCLID is updated twice a year. This April service release contains the remaining features of the web interface to be implemented: User and Report management, as well as a number of configurations to support users preparing dossiers for EU REACH, CLP, Plant Protection Products (PPP) and the Waste Framework Directive (SCIP).

In this webinar, we will focus on presenting the latest IUCLID web interface features and improvements, and how IUCLID has been configured in particular to support PPP users. In addition, we will have a segment on how the web interface can be best utilised by EU REACH users.

Questions and answers from the event.

• More about IUCLID

The webinar introduces the latest version of IUCLID 6 (v7.10.1) released on 30 October 2023.

This version is fully compatible with the May release of IUCLID and brings a series of new functionalities as well as fixes and improvements.

During the webinar, we will address topics such as:

• Performance improvements
• Latest improvements for the transition towards using IUCLID for ‘Summary of Product Characteristics’ under the EU Biocidal Products Regulation
• Improvements to data entry
• IUCLID filtering and report generator enhancements
• Helpdesk advice

Full details of the release can be found here.

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A new service release of IUCLID 6 will feature an enhanced and improved web user interface, including the management of reference substances, an improved comparison and validation report, clearer navigation through your dataset’s information, the full report generator, as well as advanced dossier creation and import settings. It also includes a guided dossier approach for Poison Centre Notification (PCN) which allows you to prepare notifications for hazardous mixtures. The guided dossier approach provides a simplified, task-based, approach to dossier creation.

Join this webinar to find out about the changes and use the opportunity to ask questions from our experts.

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