Submission Portal for Hazardous Mixtures: ECHA Publishes Guidelines

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On its submission portal, the ECHA has provided two guidelines intended to support importers and downstream users when using its new system-to-system tool. Users can create dossiers in their own software systems and transmit them directly to the ECHA portal. Annex VIII of the CLP Regulation requires downstream users to notify the ECHA about...
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ECHA: Schedule for SCIP Database Set

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The ECHA wants to make the first version of its substance of concern in products (SCIP) database available to users in October 2020. A prototype will be ready as early as the first quarter of 2020. The Agency made the announcement in Helsinki at the beginning of November as part...
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ECHA Improves Checks of REACH Dossiers

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As of April 2020, the ECHA plans to check REACH dossiers with manual and computer-assisted checks. The agency hopes that the new checks will enable it to uncover information gaps more efficiently than it could before. First, the computer-assisted checks should ensure that registrants provide truly complete information about hazard...
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ECHA Enhances Its Notification Portal for Hazardous Chemicals

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The ECHA has just provided companies with a system-to-system (S2S) tool that simplifies work with dossiers in the IUCLID-compatible PCN format. As an example, companies can now create dossiers in their own software system. Thanks to the new tool, they are then automatically transmitted to the ECHA portal and then redirected to the responsible national agencies. …

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Is an Annual Fee for REACH on the Way? ECHA Looks at New Revenue Streams

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The German Federal Environmental Agency has published a study in which the authors examine various ways that the activities of the ECHA can be financed in the future. The trigger for the study was the funding shortfall at the ECHA. How did the shortfall develop? The agency originally assumed that considerably less effort...
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Attention! Act Now and Transform Preregistrations into Registrations

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Act now and convert your preregistrations into registrations by the end of this year. That’s the only way to ensure a continued ability to market your chemical products. If you miss the deadline, you risk the possibility of competitive disadvantages.   To be able to market a substance in quantities of greater...
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ECHA Publishes Data Requirements for SVHC Database

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The ECHA has announced which information companies will have to supply when they market products containing substances of very high concern (SVHCs). The Waste Directive that has been in effect since July 2018 is the background for the announcement. The goal of the Directive is to eliminate SVHCs from material streams step by step. But if manufacturers fail to replace SVHCs with...
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Annex VIII of the CLP Regulation: EU Member States Agree to a Delay in Deadlines for Mixtures

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At the CARACAL meeting in September, the member states of the EU approved a draft regulation of the EU Commission. According to the draft, the reporting deadline for mixtures used by consumers will be postponed a year – from January 1, 2020 to January 1, 2021. The change is the response of...
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EU Seeks to Prohibit Hazardous Chemicals from Products

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A majority of the members of the EU Parliament has called for measures against the use of hazardous substances in products because such use makes recycling difficult or even impossible. That’s why they should disappear from the supply chain as quickly as possible. The members strongly support a Resolution that calls…

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Poison Centers: ECHA Offers New Support Services

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The ECHA has updated its Web site on poison centers and is offering new support services that simplify the preparation and transmission of information on hazardous mixtures. See the press release issued by the ECHA. The Web site supports companies in complying with the requirements of Annex VIII of the…

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