News 01 April 2010
ECHA Guidance for Annex V exemptions 12 February 2010
COM REACH leaflet: REACH and CLP. 2010: A key year for Chemicals Registration and
Notification. Act Now!
02 February 2010
"Get ready for REACH", an ICIS article on how soaps and detergents industry prepares for REACH 2010 deadline
4 December 2008
Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council,
and A.I.S.E., the International Association for Soaps, Detergents
and Maintenance Products yesterday launched a new multilingual website
aimed at becoming the No1 reference point for Europeans on household
cleaning and maintenance products. The website www.cleanright.eu
aims to answer a broad range of questions on household detergents
and maintenance products, including also an
A to Z of ingredients.
13 October 2008
Draft
Guideline of Annex V
8 October 2008
Commission
Regulation for amending Annexes IV and V (substances exempted from
registration)
10 October 2008
ECHA : First Stakeholder’s day: presentations available
9 October 2008
ECHA press release: ECHA Member State Committee agrees on the identification
of 14 substances of very high concern
07 October 2008
ECHA
press release: Publishes an Intermediate List of Pre-Registered
Substances
19 September 2008
ECHA
press release: ECHA requests companies to pre-register only substances
they intend to register
9 June 2008
ECHA Press Release: DATA
SUBMISSION TO ECHA ACTIVE - ALMOST 5000 FILES RECEIVED
8 May 2008
ECHA Press Release: The
initial scope of the REACH-IT release prudently defined
16 April 2008
COMMISSION
REGULATION (EC) No 340/2008 of 16 April 2008 on the fees and charges
payable to the European Chemicals Agency pursuant to Regulation
(EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council
on the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of
Chemicals (REACH)
14th April 2008 - Conference on
REACH Pre-registration organised by the European Commission
The conference covered the whole range of
issues related to pre-registration, from technical to legal, and
the Commission answered openly all questions raised by the participants.
The workshop presentations can be consulted at: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/reach/events_en.htm.
They have also been video-recorded so that you can hear the verbal
comments made by the presenters.
19-20 December 2007
RIP 3.5: Downstream Users Requirements has been
finally endorsed at the Competent Authorities Meeting of 19-20 December
2007 and the Final TGD has been published in the ECHA website: http://reach.jrc.it/
RIP 3-2-2: Chemical safety Report:
The initial assessment of the Commission is that the guidance needs
further development and that it is therefore not ready for full
endorsement, in particular not without a further consultation round
of CAs, technical experts in TC NES, RRSM, LWG and the SEG. A.I.S.E.
made the following comments:
1. ECETOC TRA model should be considered as an additional
consumer exposure model in part D. The EU Commission indicated that
if the ECETOC would be further developed to meet REACH criteria,
this will be acceptable. (I had an informal discussion with J. Debruijn
and he indicated that some members of RIP 3-2 WG (Dutch Authorities
I think) found the consumer part of ECETOC model not conservative
enough. Net, he would see two solutions: either ECETOC model is
adapted to be more “REACH compliant” and it will be
incorporated in RIP 3-2-2 afterwards, or the current RIP 3-2-2 is
modified immediately and will indicate that some parts of ECETOC
only (those which already meet REACH criteria) could be used. On
Dec 20, 07 there is a meeting on the subject
2. Add new models in Tier 2 assessment tools for consumer exposure
in the reference guidance.
3. Add AISE and HERA in the list of “sources of information”
in the reference guidance
The EU Commission is not “a priory” against both requests.
These two points will have to be part of the detailed RIP 3-2-2
comments sent by AISE to the EU Commission before mid-Jan, 08 and
ECB/ECHA will assess the pertinence of the comments
-AISE comments were supported by DUCC, CEFIC and Concawe
22 October 2007
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