REACH-IT will be open between Christmas and New Year for CLP notifications

News Alert

ECHA/NA/10/78
Helsinki, 10 December 2010
Media enquiries: ECHA Press

To help industry to submit their CLP Notifications in time, ECHA has decided to keep the REACH-IT system and its Helpdesk exceptionally open from 27 December until 30 December 2010. In addition, the Helpdesk will be open on 3 January 2011 until 17.00 and REACH-IT until 24.00 GMT.

Currently, REACH-IT opening hours are from Monday 08.00 to Friday 19.00 GMT, except for public holidays. REACH-IT will exceptionally remain open from Monday 27 December 10.00 (GMT) to 30 December 19.00 (GMT). However, REACH-IT will only be open to accept notifications to the Classification and Labelling Inventory. REACH Registrations and other submissions will not be possible during these days. REACH-IT will be open 24 hours on the last submission day, 3 January 2011.

REACH-IT will be closed on 24.00 GMT on 3 January 2011 and will be shut down for maintenance on 4 January 2011. It will be reopened on 5 January 2011 at 8.00 GMT.

The ECHA Helpdesk, which provides technical support on ECHA's IT tools and advice on provisions of the REACH and CLP Regulations, will close its contact web forms on 17 December 2010 at 15:00 (GMT) except for the web forms relevant for the CLP notifications. It will respond to REACH questions until 23 December 2010. The Helpdesk will exceptionally also respond to any open CLP questions between 27 December until 30 December 2010. Any final questions on CLP notifications need to be submitted by 17.00 GMT on 3 January so that companies can receive an answer in time to be able to make their submission by the deadline.

(Time zones: GMT London time, Central Europe +1 hour and in Eastern Europe +2 hours)