News

Four hazardous chemicals added to the Candidate List

The Candidate List of substances of very high concern now contains 223 entries for chemicals that can harm people or the environment. Companies are responsible for managing the chemicals safely and providing sufficient information to their customers and consumers.

Last chance to claim REACH registration numbers for your NONS notifications

Companies that still want to claim registration numbers assigned to their NONS notifications – for substances previously notified under the Dangerous Substances Directive – must do so before 17 July 2022. After this, ECHA will end the possibility to claim registration numbers for NONS.

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New advice for determining dose levels in toxicity testing

Companies need to choose the correct substance dose for their toxicity tests to conclude on the safety of their chemicals. This is clarified in the amended REACH annexes, which apply as of January 2022. ECHA’s advice helps companies ensure reliable results while avoiding repeated animal tests.

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Restriction dossier for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in firefighting foams submitted

ECHA has submitted a proposal to restrict the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in fire-fighting foams. The proposal will now be evaluated by ECHA’s scientific Committees for Risk (RAC) and Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC) and will be subject to a consultation, which will be launched after the committees agree the report is in conformity. We will ‘pre-publish’ it on 23 February 2022.

Registry of restriction intentions until outcome

CLP

Consultation on harmonised classification and labelling

ECHA is looking for comments on a proposal for n-hexane (EC 203-777-6, CAS 110-54-3).

The deadline for comments is 18 March 2022.

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New proposals and intention to harmonise classification and labelling

One intention has been received for styrene (EC 202-851-5, CAS 100-42-5).

Six proposals have been submitted for:

2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (EC 212-782-2, CAS 868-77-9);
dinitrogen oxide (EC 233-032-0, CAS 10024-97-2);
1-[2-(2,4-dichlorophenyl)pentyl]-1H-1,2,4-triazole (EC 266-275-6, CAS 66246-88-6);
3-isocyanatomethyl-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexyl isocyanate (EC 223-861-6, CAS 4098-71-9);
barium bis[2-chloro-5-[(2-hydroxy-1-naphthyl)azo]toluene-4-sulphonate] (EC 225-935-3, CAS 5160-02-1); and
2-ethylhexanoic acid, monoester with propane-1,2-diol (EC 285-503-5, CAS 85114-00-7).

Registry of CLH intentions until outcome

Biocides

Revised template for overview of biocidal product families available

We have published a revised template for the overview of biocidal product families, with some pre-entered values deleted in the grouping sheet. Applicants should use the revised template for their applications as of 11 January 2022. Instructions for using the template were also revised to reflect the changes and to include an annex of explanations and examples for grouping.

Supporting documents | Product family

Nanopinions

Nanopinion: What does "graphene" really look like and why is it not "carbon nanotubes"?

Read the latest Nanopinion guest column from Dr Alberto Bianco, Dr Maurizio Prato and Dr Kostas Kostarelos, from Graphene Flagship, about graphene and why it is not the same as carbon nanotubes.

Updated SCIP Candidate List package available

We have released a new package of reference substances aligned with the additional substances to the Candidate List. This helps you to create SCIP notifications including these new substances.

More | Candidate List package | Updated Candidate List

Board of Appeal

Digest of the Board of Appeal’s decisions published

The Registry of the Board of Appeal has published a collection of the main findings in the decisions adopted by the Board of Appeal. The entries are classified by subject matters and legal themes raised in appeal cases. The digest will be updated regularly following the adoption of new decisions by the Board of Appeal.

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Announcement of two new appeals

The Board of Appeal has published two new announcements in case A-013-2021 and in case A-014-2021 concerning registration decisions.

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Events

Safe and sustainable by design criteria for chemicals and materials

22 March 2022, 9:00-18:00

The European Commission is hosting its second stakeholder workshop on Safe and Sustainable by Design chemicals and materials. The workshop is organised remotely and will present the draft methodology to define safe and sustainable by design criteria for chemicals and materials.

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ECHA

Shay O’Malley appointed as ECHA’s Acting Executive Director

Mr Shay O’Malley, Director of Resources, will be ECHA’s Acting Executive Director as of 1 April 2022, until the new Head of the Agency starts in the role. Bjorn Hansen will retire on 31 March 2022.

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Technical problems with ECHA’s public chemicals database

We are facing technical issues with the datasets in ECHA’s chemicals database, and not all data are showing correctly at the moment. No data loss has been detected. The same technical problems impact the stability of the ECHA website. We are working to solve the issue and apologise for the inconvenience.

Information on chemicals

Events

REACH Committee meeting in February – agenda available

The next meeting of the European Commission's REACH Committee will take place online on 2 February 2022. The agenda is available on the Commission’s website.

Agenda