At the end of March, the ECHA published its updated its Community Rolling Action Plan (CoRAP) List. Companies can use the list to see which substances the responsible national agencies will examine in the next three years as part of the substance evaluation mandated in Articles 44–48 of REACH. In…
Some nine of ten REACH dossiers that ECHA inspectors examined last year lacked data on the long-term effects of substances, such as information on mutagenicity, genotoxicity, and long-term aquatic toxicity. In these cases, the ECHA called upon companies to supply the data within a fixed period. The ECHA published the…
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 European Chemicals Agency has published a list of substances that are top candidates for a compliance check in 2015. According to the REACH Regulation, the ECHA must test at least 5% of all the registration dossiers submitted – across all quantities. The inspectors focus on information related to the…
