Progress in evaluation
Progress in evaluation
Article 54 of REACH requires ECHA to report on the progress made (over the previous year) in dossier and substance evaluation, by 28 February each year.
This reporting consists of numerical data on compliance checks, testing proposal examinations, follow-up assessments and substance evaluations carried out during the previous year.
Later in the year, ECHA also publishes its Integrated Regulatory Strategy report which provides an overview of the activities to improve chemical safety and their impact.
Overall progress from 2009 to 2022
As a result of compliance check, testing proposal examination and substance evaluation, since 2009, ECHA issued more than 3 790 decisions covering approximately 12 200 information requests on more than 2 600 substances.
An analysis for 2020-2022 revealed that around 20 % of completed dossier evaluation cases were being considered for further regulatory action (harmonised classification and labelling (CLH), endocrine disruptor (ED), and persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) assessment or substance evaluation). The most frequent outcome by far was the consideration of a CLH process, particularly for reproductive toxicity concerns.
Evaluation process | Adopted decisions | Information requests | Information requests by area | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Annex I (incl. CSR, RSS, PBT)* |
Annex VI (incl. SID, C&L)* |
Physico-chemical | Environment | Human Health | |||
Compliance check | 2 130 | 8 669 | 431 | 579 | 292 | 3 629 | 3 738 |
Testing proposal examination | 1 472 | 2 834 | N/A | N/A | 164 | 885 | 1 785 |
Substance evaluation ** | 194 | 699 | 261 | 22 | 45 | 161 | 210 |
TOTAL | 3 796 | 12 202 | 692 | 601 | 501 | 4 675 | 5 733 |
* Annex I: General provisions for assessing substances and preparing chemical safety reports (CSR); Annex VI: Information requirements referred to in Article 10 (information to be submitted for general registration purposes); CSR: chemical safety report; RSS: robust study summary; PBT: persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic; SID: substance identification; C&L: classification and labelling.
** The substance evaluation process started in 2012.
- Evaluation under REACH: Progress Report 2017 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2017 - summary and recommendations [PDF] [EN]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2016 - summary and recommendations [PDF] [EN]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2016 [PDF] [EN]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2015 [PDF] [EN]
- Evaluation Progress Report recommendations 2015 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2014
- Evaluation Progress Report 2013 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2013 - Facts & Figures [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2012 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2012 - Facts & Figures [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2011 [PDF]
- Summary of Evaluation Report 2011 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2010 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2009 [PDF]
- Evaluation Progress Report 2008 [PDF][EN]
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