Are you affected by changes to reproductive toxicity tests?

ECHA encourages registrants, especially those with pending testing proposals, to familiarise themselves with the amended information requirement for reproductive toxicity.

News alert | Amended REACH annexes | Guidance (under update)

Summary of Product Characteristic (SPC) editor updated

An updated version of the Summary of Product Characteristic (SPC) editor to support biocidal product authorisations is now available.

News item | SPC editor | SPC editor web page

Are you a notifier? Then agree on the classification and labelling of your substances

In collaboration with the European Commission, Cefic, Eurometaux and FECC, ECHA launched a pilot project to encourage notifiers to agree on the classification and labelling of substances. The notifiers of approximately 100 substances were contacted and asked to compare the notifications they have made with the harmonised classification or with the notifications provided by other notifiers, as published in the C&L Inventory.

If there is a disagreement on the self-classification, the parties are invited to use ECHA's web-based discussion forum, the C&L Platform, where notifiers and registrants of the same substance can come into contact and agree on a self-classification and labelling of their substance.

In the first three weeks of the exercise, already more than 30 of these discussions have been initiated on the pilot project substances. The registrants and notifiers of other substances are also invited to check the notifications and where needed to use the C&L Platform.

C&L Platform | C&L Inventory

No new restriction proposal on cadmium in plastics

ECHA has published its assessment of the use of cadmium and its compounds in plastic materials not covered by entry 23 of the REACH Restriction List (Annex XVII). The report analyses the use of cadmium in plastics and gives the reasons for not proposing a restriction at this stage.

European Commission's requests to ECHA

Register now: How to identify complex substances in REACH?

27-28 April 2015, Brussels

The European Commission organises a two-day workshop focusing on the challenges companies have in identifying complex substances for REACH registration. The event will bring together stakeholders such as REACH consortia, industry associations and individual registrants as well as competent authorities, the national REACH helpdesks, ECHA and the European Commission.

All organisations whose members need to know about identification of complex substances under REACH are invited to participate and to contribute to the discussions. The registration is now open through the link below.

The workshop will be web streamed. The video recording as well as presented material will be available on the European Commission's website after the event.

Workshop | Registration

Topical Scientific Workshop on Soil Risk Assessment

7-8 October 2015, Helsinki

The first announcement of the workshop has been published on the event page on ECHA's website. Experts in soil risk assessment can express their interest in participating by 15 April using the expression of interest form. Participation will be by invitation only.

Event page | Expressions of interest