The European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC) has issued a progress report on the action plan that it initiated in June of last year. CEFIC has also released a press release on the report. With the action plan, the Council calls upon chemicals companies to inspect the currency and quality of REACH registration dossiers at their own initiative....
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...
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...
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…
