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ECHA registered under the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme

Our agency has been registered under the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS), recognising the steps we have taken to further improve our environmental management. This includes monitoring and reporting, staff engagement and stakeholder involvement on environmental aspects.

Our environmental management system enables us to increase the sustainability of our operations and minimise the negative impact our activities have on the environment.

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ECHA’s John Wickham, Head of Corporate Services (left) and Shay O’Malley, Acting Executive Director (right) receive the EMAS certificate from Kimmo Silvo (centre) of the Finnish Environment Institute.

REACH

New intention to identify a substance of very high concern

We have received an intention from The Netherlands to identify perfluoroheptanoic acid and its salts (EC -, CAS -) as a substance of very high concern.

Registry of SVHC intentions

Consultations launched for applications for authorisation

We have launched a consultation on 13 applications for authorisation covering 16 uses of:

chromium trioxide (EC 215-607-8, CAS 1333-82-0) used for etching and electroplating of plastics, in functional chrome plating, and in decorative/functional plating; and
trixylyl phosphate (EC 246-677-8, CAS 25155-23-1) used in closed systems as a hydraulic fluid.

More information about the uses that authorisation is applied for, including the description of the functions of the substance, exposure scenarios, possible alternatives identified by the applicants, together with socio-economic information, is available on our website.

Comments can be submitted using a form on our website until 13 July 2022 (23:59, Helsinki time).

Current consultations

CLP

Consultation on harmonised classification and labelling

We are looking for comments on the harmonised classification and labelling proposals for:

N-1-naphthylaniline; N-phenylnaphthalen-1-amine (EC 201-983-0, CAS 90-30-2);
Dinitrogen oxide (EC 233-032-0, CAS 10024-97-2); and
tetraphosphorus trisulphide; phosphorus sesquisulphide
(EC 215-245-0, CAS 1314-85-8).

The deadline for comments is 15 July 2022.

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Databases

Improvements to our chemicals database

We have made some small improvements to our chemicals database, including:

properties of concern on infocards now link to more information on the origins of each property of concern;
standard unified date formats in regulatory lists; and
all lists feeding the public activities coordination tool (PACT) have a first publication date, allowing the entry date of a substance in the PACT list to be shown.

In the SCIP database, you can now see when Candidate List substances of very high concern have been removed from products or components.

Additionally, for nanomaterials on the EEA market the details page of the database now includes information on the nanomaterial form characterisation information. The results page also has an improved display, allowing better access to the data and improved user interaction options.

Information on chemicals

Collaboration

PARC programme launches to improve chemical risk assessment

The European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) aims to advance research, sharing knowledge and improving skills for chemical risk assessments.

We participate in the project and expect new data, methods and innovative tools to be developed over the next seven years. These will address challenges in chemical safety and strengthen the EU’s regulatory science and policy making in this area.

PARC is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme for the 2021-2027. It brings together nearly 200 partners from 28 countries as well as EU agencies. The project is coordinated by the French authority ANSES.