ECHA Weekly - 17 April 2019

REACH

Two restriction dossiers submitted

On 12 April, the following restriction dossiers were submitted:

• A proposal by France and Sweden to restrict skin sensitising, irritative and/or corrosive substances (EC/CAS -).
• A proposal by Norway to restrict perfluorohexane-1-sulphonic acid, its salts and related substances.

ECHA's committees are currently performing a conformity check on the reports. ECHA will publish the reports on its website to ensuretransparency and to help stakeholders prepare for the six-month public consultations on the reports.

The public consultations are expected in June 2019 if the reports pass conformity.

Registry of restriction intentions until outcome

New substance evaluation conclusion published

A new substance evaluation conclusion document is now available on ECHA’s website for imidazole (EC 206-019-2, CAS 288-32-4), added to the CoRAP list in 2012 and evaluated by United Kingdom.

Community rolling action plan | Substance evaluation

New Interact Portal for authorities coming soon

ECHA’s Interact Portal will provide a single point of access for Member State authorities, ECHA’s committees and the Agency. The portal will provide users with easy access to useful information and to tools relevant for their work, such as REACH-IT, R4BP, ePIC and IUCLID. Through the Interact portal, members of ECHA’s scientific committees, advisers and rapporteurs will also be able to access the Collaboration tool for the joint preparation of documents. The Interact Portal replaces the previous Portal Dashboards for Member State competent authorities and national enforcement authorities.

CLP

Public consultations on harmonised classification and labelling

ECHA is looking for comments on the harmonised classification and labelling proposals for the following substances:

• Pendimethalin (ISO); N-(1-ethylpropyl)-2,6-dinitro-3,4-xylidine (EC 254-938-2, CAS 40487-42-1). The substance has an existing harmonised classification and labelling in Annex VI to CLP. Comments are invited on the hazard classes skin sensitisation, reproductive toxicity and hazardous to the aquatic environment.
• Ammonium bromide (EC 235-183-8, CAS 12124-97-9). The substance has no existing harmonised classification and labelling in Annex VI to CLP. Comments are invited on all health hazard classes except respiratory sensitisation and aspiration hazard.

The deadline for comments is 14 June 2019.

Give comments

New poison centre terms added to ECHA-term

60 new terms and their definitions can now be found in ECHA-term in 23 EU languages. The majority of the new terms and abbreviations are related to poison centre activities.

ECHA-term is a multilingual terminology database supporting your work in 23 EU languages. You can look up terms and their definitions in different languages as well as download them free of charge.

ECHA-term

Biocides

List of Review Programme notifications updated

An updated list of the substance and product-type combinations for which compliant notifications for inclusion in the Review Programme have been made is now available. The names of the notifying companies have been included to promote collaboration on applications and to help avoid unnecessary testing on animals.

List of notifications

Occupational exposure limits

Calls for evidence for setting occupational exposure limit values for lead and its compounds and for diisocyanates

ECHA has launched calls for evidence on lead and its compounds and on diisocyanates. The purpose of the calls is to gather information on uses, exposure, health effects, toxicology, epidemiology and modes of action of these substances. Any other relevant information is also welcome.

The information will help the Agency in drafting the scientific reports related to health-based exposure limits at the workplace.

The deadline for comments is 30 June 2019.

Give comments

UK's withdrawal from the EU

Companies should continue their Brexit preparations

With regard to the decision of the European Council to extend the UK withdrawal negotiation deadline, ECHA advises companies to continue preparing for a new, flexible withdrawal date.

News

Board of Appeal

Decision on data-sharing appeal published

In case A-010-2017, a previous registrant challenged ECHA’s decision to grant a potential registrant permission to refer to information from tests on vertebrate animals.

The Board of Appeal found that ECHA can, depending on the circumstances of a case, assess whether the data and cost-sharing terms proposed are fair, transparent and non-discriminatory. It held that in this case, the previous registrant had insisted on terms that were not transparent and/or unfair and/or discriminatory.

In the circumstances of the case, the Board of Appeal found that ECHA was correct in finding that the potential registrant had made every effort. The Board of Appeal therefore dismissed the appeal.

Decision

ECHA

ECHA’s Annual Stakeholder Survey 2018 results published

An overview of the results of ECHA’s stakeholder survey for 2018 is now available on our website.

We thank everyone who contributed to the survey.

2018 - Overview of results

In brief on access to documents published

The In brief providing the key figures for 2018 on access to documents at ECHA is now available.

In brief