News

Companies must review registrations transferred from the UK

All transfers of registrations following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU have now been completed. More than 8 000 UK-based registrations have been successfully transferred to companies in the EU, EEA or Northern Ireland. These companies must review and, if needed, update the information in these registrations.

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REACH

Committees’ opinions on restrictions available

The consolidated opinions of the Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-Economic Analysis on the proposed restriction on skin sensitising substances in clothing, footwear and related articles (EC -, CAS -), submitted by France and Sweden, and calcium cyanamide (EC 205-861-8, CAS 156-62-7), submitted by ECHA, are now available.

Registry of restriction intentions

Committees’ opinions on application for authorisation available

The consolidated opinions of the Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-Economic Analysis for uses of the following substances are now available:

two uses of 4-(1,1,3,3-tetramethylbutyl)phenol, ethoxylated and 4-nonylphenol, branched and linear, ethoxylated by Phadia GmbH, Thermo Fisher Scientific Baltics UAB, and B·R·A·H·M·S GmbH; and
use of chromium trioxide (EC 215-607-8; CAS 1333-82-0) by Safran Aircraft Engines.

Opinions

Testing proposals

We have launched 29 new consultations on testing proposals. The deadline for comments is 7 June 2021.

There are currently 60 open consultations on testing proposals.

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Biocides

Technical equivalence checks for propan-1-ol and propan-2-ol

On 1 May 2021, we will discontinue the accelerated procedure for technical equivalence applications concerning propan-1-ol and propan-2-ol. Applications concerning these substances will be treated in the same way as other applications.

We sped up our processing of technical equivalence applications for these two active substances in March 2020 to ensure an adequate supply of disinfectants on the European market. With the supply of disinfectants now stabilised, the accelerated procedure is no longer necessary.

If you are preparing an application and still want to benefit from the accelerated procedure, contact ECHA's Helpdesk immediately.

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IT tools

Updated IT tools for poison centre notifications

IUCLID has been updated with new features for companies preparing notifications to poison centres. The new features include free text information to complement the picklist options available in IUCLID, and a new ‘dossier viewer’ that helps users compile notification information into an easy-to-view, web-based report before submitting. More improvements to the tool are foreseen in May for users preparing their notifications online.

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New tool to identify persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals

We have developed a new screening profiler to help identify persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) or very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) substances. The ECHA PBT screening profiler may be used to screen for substances for further PBT/vPvB assessment under REACH.

The workflow is based on collected experimental data and results provided by t(Q)SAR models in the OECD QSAR Toolbox. The profiler is available for download from the QSAR Toolbox repository or through the QSAR Toolbox repository client. The profiler has not yet been widely tested and is available as a beta version. If you have any feedback, please send it to: pbt_wg@echa.europa.eu.

QSAR Toolbox repository

Nanomaterials

Last chance to submit your ideas for studies on nanomaterials

The European Union Observatory for Nanomaterials (EUON) is calling for proposals for new studies concerning nanomaterials to be performed by EUON. ECHA’s stakeholders are invited to submit suggestions for study topics by 30 April 2021. This is your opportunity to shape the direction of EUON’s work this year.

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ECHA

ECHA's Annual Report 2020 published

The report presents our operational achievements and the resources used during 2020. You can also scroll through some of our highlights from last year in our new interactive timeline.

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