Industry associations and EU member states consider the deadlines proposed by the EU for updates of registration dossiers unrealistic. They expressed this opinion in statements published after the CARACAL meeting at the beginning of July. For example, Eurometaux, the European Association of Non-Ferrous Metals Producers and Recyclers, highlighted the complexity of the interconnections involved. It noted that every individual data…
The ECHA and the EU Commission plan to screen all data on chemicals in quantities greater than one ton by 2027. That announcement was made by ECHA executive director Björn Hansen at an event sponsored by Chemical Watch held in Brussels at the end of March. That approach is also…
Last year, the ECHA evaluated 484 registrations (compliance checks and testing proposals) and determined that information was missing in three of every four of the dossiers examined. That’s the finding of an ECHA report published at the end of February. Overall, the examiners evaluated 286 dossiers. In 211 cases, it…
