The ECHA has increased the pressure on companies to comply with Article 22, Section 1 of REACH – so that each is “updating his registration without undue delay with relevant new information and submitting it to the Agency.” The ECHA is applying the push for compliance as part of the...
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...
The ECHA has approved the Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP). The plans calls for evaluating a total of 135 substances between 2015–17, including 48 this year alone. Individual EU states are responsible for evaluating the substances. In Germany, three federal authorities handle this task: The Federal Institute for Occupational Safety…