The ECHA has reported 50 companies to the national enforcement authorities of EU member states and issued a press release on the matter. The companies had failed to update their REACH registrations. The ECHA learned of the issues with the companies while checking the registrations in two campaigns. In the…
So far, some 872 companies have preregistered 18,277 chemicals (status at the end of June) with the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation (MoEU). The number of preregistrations totals 77,037. The KKDIK Regulation, the Turkish version of the EU’s REACH Regulation, gives companies until December 31 of this year to preregister chemicals. After...
An analysis undertaken by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung: BfR) and the German Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt: UBA) shows that in the middle tonnage band, at least 46% of the dossiers examined do not meet the information requirements stablished by REACH. The analysis is found in REACH Compliance: Data Availability in REACH Registrations...
The Web site of the South Korean Ministry of Environment (MoE) now provides data on existing substances to companies. The information includes data on physical and chemical properties and on the hazards to human health and the environment that a substance poses. The underlying list of chemicals is to be expanded and updated monthly....
Associations have criticized what they regard as overly tight deadlines for updating their registration dossiers. The EC defined the deadlines in its Draft implementing regulation – Ares(2019)7784994. The associations expressed their reservation as part of the Feedback period from December 18–January 15, 2020. For example, the European Non-Ferrous Metals Association, Eurometaux, noted that dossier updates could be very complex. When a formula changes, so could...
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...
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...
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...