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ECHA Newsletter 3/2012: Five years of REACH In the June issue we report back on the two chemical conferences held in Helsinki in May: the ECHA Stakeholders' Day and the Helsinki Chemicals Forum. We give an overview of the IT tool updates and their impact for registrants, explain applications for authorisation and introduce the new concern driven compliance check strategy. In our guest column, Guido Sacconi, former Italian MEP and the Parliament's lead rapporteur on the REACH proposal, reflects back on the first five years of REACH. Your opinion counts! ECHA-term invites everybody to consult the database and experience its new look and feel. We also encourage you to fill in the user survey at the link provided. Your suggestions and ideas will be taken into account when we further develop the database and expand its content. For more than a year, the database has been providing key REACH and CLP terms in 22 EU languages to thousands of active users in more than 30 countries. The database facilitates the consistent translation of ECHA documents and helps industry and authorities to deal with the regulatory terminology in several languages. Save the date - upcoming events for future applicants for authorisation (1-3 Oct 2012) From 1 to 3 October 2012, ECHA will host two back-to-back one-day events, specifically designed for future applicants. The first will aim at raising the overall understanding of the authorisation application procedure. The second will be more focused on the practical aspects of how to prepare an Analysis of Alternatives and Socio-Economic Analysis and primarily target future applicants who are more advanced in their preparation. Due to space constraints, participants will be selected through an application process which will open in early July. |
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PRESS RELEASES The Member State Committee agrees on identification of five SVHCs and finalises 41 dossier evaluation cases 12 June 2012 In its meeting from 6 to 8 June 2012, the Member State Committee (MSC) unanimously agreed on the identification of five substances of very high concern (SVHCs). These will be added to the Candidate List and may subsequently become subject to authorisation. The Committee also finalised 41 draft dossier evaluation decisions. NEWS ALERTS ECHA and MSCAs pave the way for further assessment of nanomaterials under REACH 08 June 2012 In a two day workshop, ECHA shared experiences with Member State Competent Authorities, the European Commission and Accredited Stakeholders in evaluating registration dossiers containing nanomaterials and proposed the initiation of an ECHA working group on nanomaterials. Best practices, collected from registrants that have already registered nanomaterials, will be disseminated in the near future aiming to help those registrants that need to register nanomaterials by 31 May 2013. In its assessment of substances in the nano-form, ECHA will use the EU recommendation on the nano-definition as the benchmark. Interaction with registrants agreed on in workshop on Substance Evaluation 07 June 2012 Participants from the Member State' Competent Authorities (MSCAs), ECHA and observers from Stakeholder organisations agreed on preferred ways to interact early with registrants during the substance evaluation process. Q&A on dissemination & confidentiality of Safety Data Sheet information 07 June 2012 More information on chemical substances usually found in the Safety Data Sheet (SDS) will be made publicly available on ECHA's website from autumn 2012. ECHA publishes a Q&A document to provide details in advance on the dissemination and new confidentiality claims of such information in IUCLID 5.4, and encourages registrants to familiarise themselves with the upcoming changes. |
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ON THE WEB The presentations and recordings of the webinar: "SMEs and REACH" of 11 June 2012 are now available 13 June 2012 Registry of intentions has been updated 11 June 2012 The Registry of intentions for Restrictions has been updated with one new intention: 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP). The Registry of intentions of Harmonised Classification and Labelling has also been updated with one new intention, 1-methylpyrrolidin-2-one. Draft revised Guidance on the Application of the CLP criteria - Part 3 Health hazards relating to specific concentration limits (SCLs) sent to RAC and Forum 7 June 2012 Traineeship positions Ongoing procurements |
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