Spotlight on Regulatory Updates
What You Need to Know
ECHA Review SME Status
The ECHA website will be updated with a new IT tool at the end of June to assist companies in correctly identifying classification of company size. Companies must submit their company size during REACH registration. The company size determines the fee payable to ECHA for submission of registration. There is a reduced fee for small...
IUCLID 6 Beta – Testing Phase Complete
The final version of IUCLID 6 is now available. ECHA has been preparing the roll-out of the new software by releasing a series of Beta-versions to the public. These have been systematically released to allow users to familiarise themselves with the new system, as well as allowing for reporting of any issues with the software...
IUCLID 6 Now Available
The new versions of IUCLID has now been released. This will be followed by an updated version of REACH-IT (online platform for secure submissions to ECHA) at the end of June. Once the new version of REACH-IT is launched (21st June 2016), only dossiers created with IUCLID 6 can be submitted. Until then, companies must...
ECHA reports progress on dossier quality, but further improvement required.
ECHA’s report of its 2014 activities, published in February, highlights the outcome of compliance checks and recurring shortcomings encountered in registration dossiers including testing proposals. It also discusses further activities carried out during the year and provides recommendations to registrants to improve dossier quality. This summary will highlight key areas from the report. Frequent Issues...
Dossier quality a matter of national enforcement?
Since the first registration deadlines were met by industry ECHA, through its screening and evaluation work has been reporting that for many of the submitted dossiers the quality of the information has not been of a high enough standard. The issue of dossier quality was highlighted earlier this year in the European Commission’s REACH...
Dossier Evaluation what ECHA wants to see in your REACH DOSSIER
Dossier Evaluation what ECHA wants to see in your REACH DOSSIER. Below are the key issues which became apparent during the series of presentations at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) 7th Stakeholders’ Day on the key topic of Evaluation. Key messages from the presentations on the REACH registration process and Authorisation applications were covered in...
IUCLID upgrade allows ECHA to increase information dissemination
Are you confused by what is meant by dissemination of Safety Data Sheet information and confidentiality claims? If so, I bet you are not alone. The recent upgrade to IUCLID 5.4 with the corresponding new version of REACH IT will allow ECHA to increase the amount of information currently available to the public from REACH...
ECHA Requires Registrants to Upgrade their NONs Dossiers
ECHA now require notified NONs NONs Dossiers Upgrade Required for REACHDossiers to be upgraded to allow for dissemination through the ECHA website. ECHA is now going to be making the NONs dossiers publically available on the ECHA CHEM portal. This means that any missing information, incorrect information or potentially unclaimed confidential sections of your NONs...
Dossier Evaluation: What ECHA wants to see in your REACH Dossier
Below are the key issues which became apparent during the series of presentations at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) 7th Stakeholders’ Day on the key topic of Evaluation. Key messages from the presentations on the REACH registration process were covered last week in “5 key issues Registration issues from ECHA’s 7th stakeholder day” and authorization...