ECHA
Forum elects new Chair and Vice Chairs
The Enforcement Forum has elected Ms Katja vom Hofe (Germany) as its new Chair. Ms Sinead McMickan (Ireland) and Ms Szilvia Deim (Hungary) have been elected as the Forum's new Vice Chairs.
Enforcement Forum
What do you think of our news products?
Now’s your chance to help us improve our news products. On Monday, you received an email with a link to our news readership survey. The survey should only take 10 minutes to complete, so if you haven’t given us your views yet, let us know what you think of our ECHA Weekly and our ECHA Newsletter.
If you subscribe to our news, but have not yet received the link, let us know at: surveys@echa.europa.eu.
The survey will be open until 14 April 2017.
REACH-IT update at the end of April – downtime before
Our dossier submission tool, REACH-IT, will be updated on 25 April. The update will focus mainly on increasing the capacity of the system to handle the large number of dossiers expected for the 2018 deadline. It also includes a new submission type for the alternative chemical name requests under the CLP Regulation.
To manage the update, we will close REACH-IT from Thursday 20 April at 14.00 (EET) to Tuesday 25 April at 10.00 (EET). Regulatory deadlines that may affect companies during the closing period (e.g. completeness check deadlines) will be moved to 25 April.
Similarly, any completeness check deadlines falling during the Easter closure, 14 April to 17 April, will be moved to the 18 April.
ECHA advices registrants to pay attention to their messages in REACH-IT in the days before the closure, in particular those that are undergoing a dossier evaluation or substance evaluation assessment.
The last major update of REACH-IT before the 2018 deadline is expected to be in October 2017.
IUCLID 5 website closing
The IUCLID 5 website will be shut down permanently from 30 March 2017 onwards. All relevant content has been transferred to the IUCLID 6 website. If you still use the IUCLID 5 website, download any information you may need, e.g. a copy of your legal entities, before Thursday. From Thursday onwards, the IUCLID 6 website is the only source for IUCLID news and support.
News
REACH
Registrants should get ready to comment on 2016 substance evaluation draft decisions
ECHA will soon send information requests on 27 substances to registrants for comments. These substances were evaluated by the Member States in 2016.
News alert | CoRAP list of substances
New proposals and intentions to harmonise classification and labelling
Proposals have been received for:
- 2-butoxyethanol (EC EC 203-905-0; CAS 11-76-2);
- theophylline; 1,3-dimethyl-3,7-dihydro-1H-purine-2,6-dione (EC 200-385-7; CAS 58-55-9);
- tribenuron-methyl (ISO); methyl 2-[N-(4-methoxy-6-methyl-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)-N-methylcarbamoylsulfamoyl]benzoate (EC 401-190-1; CAS 101200-48-0);
- trimethoxy(methyl)silane (EC 214-685-0; CAS 1185-55-3).
A new intention to harmonise the classification and labelling has also been received for phosphine (CAS 232-260-8; CAS 7803-51-2).
Submitted CLH proposals | CLH intentions
Committees’ opinion on application for authorisation available
The consolidated opinion of the Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-economic Analysis for a use of bis(2-methoxyethyl) ether (Diglyme) (EC 203-924-4; CAS 111-96-6) by MAFLON S.P.A. is available on our website.
Adopted opinions
Downstream users
Supply chain communication tools
Our new interactive infographic gives information about a range of tools designed to improve communication in the supply chain between between suppliers and users of chemicals.
Communication in the supply chain
Guidance
Translations of guidance documents now available
The following guidance documents are now available in 23 languages on our website:
- updated Guidance in a nutshell on data-sharing (version 2.0) published in February 2017; and
- updated Guidance for identification and naming of substances under REACH and CLP (version 2.0) published in December 2016.
Guidance in a nutshell on data-sharing | Guidance for identification and naming of substances under REACH and CLP
Events
Get our REACH 2018 advice live next week
Our Stakeholders’ Day will be streamed live on 4 and 5 April. Get advice from ECHA and industry on the REACH 2018 registration deadline and follow training on the IT tools. The event also features best practice for ensuring the safe use of chemicals in the supply chain. Send us your questions and feedback online.
Programme
Last chance to register: getting meaningful exposure scenarios: how sector use maps help
30 March, 11:00 to 13:00 Helsinki time (EET)
Participants will learn about the sector use map concept, its benefits, and its implementation.
This webinar is of interest for downstream users and their sector organisations who want to optimise the communication of safe use information in the supply chain.
Event information and registration
Calls for information
There are no new consultations this week. Have a look at the 47 currently open consultations on our home page.
All open consultations
