REACH
Enhanced completeness check delivers its first results
Since the enhanced completeness check was introduced in June 2016, 1 653 REACH registration dossiers have been manually verified by the Agency’s staff. This corresponds to 33 % of the incoming dossiers.
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Reminder: Last call to pre-register your chemicals
To benefit from the extended deadline for registering existing, low volume chemicals by the last REACH registration deadline, you need to have pre-registered your substance with ECHA. If you manufacture or import a substance for the first time at or above 1 to 100 tonnes per year, and your substance is not a known carcinogen, mutagen or toxic to reproduction, you can still pre-register within six months of starting the activity, and at the latest by 31 May 2017 – one year before the deadline.
News alert
DecaBDE restrictions decision published in Official Journal
New restrictions on the use of the flame retardant decaBDE have been published in the Official Journal and Annex XVII to the REACH Regulation has been amended accordingly. The restrictions will apply from 2 March 2019.
Official Journal
CLP
New proposals and intentions to harmonise classification and labelling
Proposals to harmonise the classification and labelling have been submitted for the following substances:
- bis(α,α-dimethylbenzyl) peroxide (EC 201-279-3, CAS 80-43-3),
- methyl 4-[(4,5-dihydro-3-methoxy-4-methyl-5-oxo-1H-1,2,4-triazol-1-yl)carbonylsulfamoyl]-5-methylthiophene-3-carboxylate (CAS 317815-83-1),
- octhilinone (ISO); 2-octyl-2H-isothiazol-3-one (EC 247-761-7, CAS 26530-20-1).
New intentions to harmonise the classification and labelling have also been received for:
- Margosa ext. [from the kernels of Azadirachta indica extracted with water and further processed with organic solvents] (EC 283-644-7, CAS 84696-25-3),
- trinexapac-ethyl (ISO); ethyl 4-[cyclopropyl(hydroxy)methylene]-3,5-dioxocyclohexanecarboxylate (CAS 95266-40-3),
- fenpropidin (ISO); (R,S)-1-[3-(4-tert-butylphenyl)-2-methylpropyl]piperidine (EC 614-049-6, CAS 67306-00-7).
Submitted proposals | Submitted intentions
Biocides
R4BP 3 open 24/7
The biocides submission tool, R4BP 3, is now open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as a response to your feedback. Support continues to be available during office hours.
R4BP 3
Last call: notify food and feed substances
If you want to add a food and feed substance as a repellent or attractant in the biocides Review Programme, notify ECHA by 24 February. Advice is available on what is required for the notification.
News item | Information requirements
Downstream users
Downstream user reports - over 700 submitted so far
During 2016, ECHA received a total of 130 reports from downstream users whose use is not supported by the exposure scenario received from their supplier. An overview of all the reports submitted is available on our website. This is updated twice a year and information up to the end of 2016 is now available. Downstream users are required to report to ECHA if they prepare a chemical safety report, if they rely on certain exemptions from the obligation to prepare a chemical safety report, or if their classification is different from that of all of their suppliers.
Overview on downstream user reports
Guidance
Update to the Guidance in a Nutshell on data-sharing published
Following the update of the Guidance on data-sharing published in November 2016, the corresponding Guidance in a Nutshell on data-sharing has now also been updated.
Guidance
Events
Webinar: replacing harmful chemicals in the textile sector
23 February 11:00 – 12:00 Helsinki Time (EET, GMT +2)
The webinar presents how H&M and a group of Italian SMEs from the Prato district have organised themselves to replace harmful chemicals from their supply chains. Greenpeace will also present their Detox campaign and ChemSec will give an overview of their available tools to help companies substitute.
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Do you want training on Chesar?
6-7 April 2017, Helsinki
We are offering training sessions on Chesar. Currently, we have one two-day event planned on 6-7 April 2017 for which interested parties could still register. Depending on the training requests, we may organise further trainings. We invite you to complete a survey by 20 March 2017, so that we can analyse the training needs and possibly propose further training dates.
Participation is free of charge, but participants have to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
Programme | Survey
Seminar on Applications for Authorisation
18 April 13:30 to 19 April 13:00 Helsinki time (EET, GMT +2)
This seminar focuses on improving future applicants’ knowledge of the REACH authorisation application procedure and will highlight the main elements on how to prepare an application. It will also look at how the opinion-making process is performed by RAC and SEAC, how the European Commission addresses decision-making and getting practical advice and feedback from previous applicants.
It is open to companies planning to apply for authorisation.
Registration
Single Market Forum 2016/17 – REACH 2018 and beyond conference
27-28 April 2017, Sofia, Bulgaria
The conference is organised by the European Commission and aims to draw the attention of companies, and especially SMEs, to the obligations they may have under REACH. It will also help them to prepare for the upcoming 2018 registration deadline. Participants will be able to book a one-to-one session with an expert on REACH to get tailor-made advice.
Participation to the event is free of charge.
Event information and registration
Calls for information
Potential candidates for substitution
ECHA has launched a public consultation on five new potential candidates for substitution under the Biocidal Products Regulation. The deadline to comment on these is 10 April 2017.
Give comments
Have a look at the 17 currently open consultations on our home page.
All open consultations