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e-News 19 September 2012

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19 September 2012

Second Lead Registrant Workshop - last call to register!

Registration for the workshop closes on 21 September. If you are a lead registrant intending to register for the 2013 or 2018 REACH registration deadline, notify us of your role using the lead registrant notification webform to get your invitation to the workshop. ECHA is also offering to reimburse the travel and accomodation costs for SME lead registrants on a first come, first served basis. An updated agenda for the workshop is available on the ECHA website. The Agenda includes detailed topics, timings and presenter names for each of the plenary sessions. The workshop will be webstreamed live and a video recording of the workshop presentations will be published on the ECHA website shortly after the event.

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NEWS ALERTS

ECHA strengthens its compliance check strategy

17 September 2012

ECHA is introducing a new systematic targeting of compliance checks based on specified concerns. This will increase the chances for dossiers of insufficient compliance to be scrutinised and ensure higher compliance of REACH registrations.

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ECHA urges 574 registrants of intermediates to improve the quality of their dossiers

14 September 2012

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has conducted a new IT-based screening of all REACH intermediate registration dossiers, which has raised serious quality and potential compliance concerns. The concerned registrants have been directly informed via REACH-IT and are requested to review and update their dossiers with correct information over the next three months. After this period, ECHA plans to screen these dossiers again and identify those that will be subject to further regulatory actions.

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New version of the QSAR Toolbox to be introduced in a workshop in November

13 September 2012

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), in collaboration with the OECD, invites industry users to a workshop introducing version 3.0 of the QSAR Toolbox on 20 November in Helsinki. Companies are asked to express their interest in participating to the event by 17 October.

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ON THE WEB

ECHA publishes a new webpage about animal testing under REACH

17 September 2012

REACH strikes a balance between the need of information to increase our understanding of the hazards of chemical substances, and the aim of avoiding unnecessary testing on animals.

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ECHA publishes a summary report from the Workshop on Strictly Controlled Conditions

14 September 2012


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Announcement of an appeal

17 September 2012

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ECHA announces new webinar series on nanomaterials

A webinar entitled "How to ensure the safe use of nanomaterials under REACH Part 1 Characterisation of nanoforms of substances in registration dossiers" will take place on 30 October 2012. The webinar provides information to registrants on the types of information to be included in a REACH registration dossier for a substance with nanoform(s).

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Open positions

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Ongoing procurements

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