27.01.2012

Reach In 2013

First Round - By Dec. 1, 2010, the European Chemical Agency (ECHA) had received approximately 25,000 registration dossiers for about 4,700 different chemical substances that are produced in or imported into the European Union, mainly in the tonnage band of over 1,000t/y.

Furthermore, it received more than 3.1 million notifications from approximately 110,000 different substances where basic classification data were communicated. It has been estimated that this huge effort has cost the European chemical industry already more than €1.2 billion.
more27.09.2010

Reaching Out, Working Together

Exchanging Information - The first deadline for Reach registration is approaching fast. This process requires that future registrants work together in Substance Information Exchange Forums (SIEF) in order to submit one joint registration dossier for one substance. In its efforts to make this registration process a success, Mercedes Viñas, manager of chemical regulation at Cefic, along with the Cefic SIEF working group have developed recommendations and tips in order to allow SIEFs to deliver. more