PACT - Public Activities Coordination Tool

The public activities coordination tool (PACT) provides an overview of the substance-specific activities that authorities are working on under REACH and the CLP Regulation. These activities are being carried out in line with ECHA’s Integrated Regulatory Strategy.

PACT provides up-to-date information on the activities planned, ongoing or completed by ECHA and/or MSCAs for a given substance in the following areas:

Data generation and assessment – dossier evaluation, substance evaluation, informal hazard assessment (PBT/vPvB/ED).
Assessment of regulatory needs (ARN).
Regulatory risk management – harmonised classification and labelling (CLH) , SVHC identification, recommendations for inclusion in the Authorisation List, restriction.

A summary of all the substance-specific activities can be found under ‘Details’ for each entry.

cobalt carbonate; cobalt di(acetate); cobalt dichloride; cobalt dinitrate; cobalt sulphate

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Regulatory risk management

Restriction

Restriction 1

Status

Commission decided

Date of intention

20-juuli-2017

Withdrawal date

Submitter(s)

ECHA

Remarks

ECHA held a call for evidence to obtain information for assessment in preparing the Annex XV dossier: https://echa.europa.eu/previous-calls-for-comments-and-evidence. This information will be used, amongst other issues, to determine if any derogations are required for the potential restriction as these cannot be proposed without adequate risk and socio-economic information. If a derogation is not proposed by the Dossier Submitter then it will be incumbent on the relevant stakeholders to do so during any public consultation process with a full risk and socio-economic justification accompanying it.

NOTE! The Commission decided to terminate the restriction process on 8 April 2022. However the Commission is preparing to derive a BOEL for cobalt and its compounds according to Directive 2004/37/EC on the protection of workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work.

Details on the scope of restriction

Restricting the placing on the market of certain chemicals and use of professional and industrial use of the 5 cobalt salts where adequate control cannot be demonstrated. The restriction may also be implemented by imposing operational conditions and risk management measures.

Restriction report (and annexes)

Annex XV report

Annex

Opinion of RAC (and minority positions) and Forum Enforceability Advice (as of September 2023)

RAC opinion

Draft opinion of SEAC

SEAC draft opinion

Compiled RAC and SEAC opinion (and minority positions)

Final Opinion

Adopted restriction/Commission communication

C(2022) 2137 final

Latest update

18-okt-2022

More information

Group members

This group of substance has the following member substances:

List entry date: 28-veebr-2018

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