ECHA DEEMS REACH REGISTRATION ROUND A 'SUCCESS'

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Geert Dancet, executive director of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) tells CW that the Reach registration of high volume and hazardous chemicals, which closed yesterday, has been a “success.” ECHA says its online registration system for the European Union (EU) Reach program was operating normally despite a last minute rush for companies to register their substances. “I congratulate companies for rising to the challenge to comply with Reach,” Dancet says. As of 24:00 GMT yesterday ECHA received 24,675 registration dossiers for 4,300 substances. The overall number of registrations accepted for processing is in line with the original forecast made by the European Commission. The final number of registrations and substances will be made available at the end of February 2011 when all submitted dossiers are due to have been processed. “We did what we could” to help companies registertheir substances, Dancet says. Almost 400 substances registered are for chemicals classified as carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic (CMR). Of these, 27 are already on the candidate list of substances of very high concern. Approximately 86% of registrations were made by large companies and 14% by small or medium-sized companies. Only representatives Companies representing non-EU manufacturers, known as only representatives, made up 19% of registrations. This “demonstratesthe ability of non-European companies to participate successfullyin Substance Identity Exchange Forums [SIEF],” ECHA says. Companies failing to register substances under Reach are faced with a “no market” scenario for their products, but if they register quickly they will then be able to sell their products in the EU once again, Dancet says. Companies that submitted dossiers which fail the so called ‘completeness checks’ will have a further four months to provide the missingdata. ECHA says it will closely examine more than 5% of dossiers submitted in so called quality checks to ensure information registered meets the required standard. Inspectors in EU member states may also check quality issues via safety data sheet information, Dancet says. Lessons learned from this initial registration round completed yesterday will be taken forward into the 2013 and 2018 registration deadlines for smaller volume production chemicals. ECHA is due to file a report on how to improve on the registration process by June 2011.