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ECHA Weekly - 3 October 2018

Biocides Day 2018 – take part online

Our Biocides Day conference on 24 October is now full, but we invite you to take part online. The programme features the hot topics in biocides, with speakers from the European Commission, Member States, industry associations, companies and ECHA.

You can watch the event live and ask questions online. A video recording will be available shortly after the event. If you have registered but your plans change, cancel your registration at: echa-events@echa.europa.eu.

More | Add the event in your calendar

REACH

REACH compliance workshop at the BfR – conclusions available

Take a look at the findings and presentations of the joint workshop on improving data quality in REACH registration dossiers. The workshop took place on 23 and 24 August and it was co-organised by ECHA, the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and the German Environment Agency (UBA).

BfR communication

Biocides

Want to keep using (ethylenedioxy)dimethanol?

Companies have withdrawn their interest to get the following active substance approved in the biocides review programme:

(ethylenedioxy)dimethanol (reaction products of ethylene glycol with paraformaldehyde (EGForm)) (EC 222-720-6, CAS 3586-55-8) for use in disinfectants and algaecides (product-type 2).

Notify us by 1 October 2019 to keep the substance in the approval process.

Upcoming deadlines for active substances

Union authorisation opinions available

The first opinions of the Biocidal Products Committee on Union authorisation applications for biocidal products are now available.

BPC opinions

PIC

New guidelines for improving your export notifications

We have published new guidelines to help you improve the quality of your PIC export notifications. They focus specifically on prohibited and allowed uses of exported substances in the EU, which you have to include in Section 6.2 of the export notification in ePIC. Check out the recommendations and make sure your 2019 notifications comply with them. This way, you can smooth the approval of your notification.

Guidelines

Supply chain communication

Tool to check safety data sheets

Have you ever read a safety data sheet (SDS) and wondered whether it has all the information it should have, or maybe even found it difficult to understand?
With the Dutch Labour Inspectorate’s online tool – now available in English – you can check SDS information and send feedback to your supplier.

SDS check tool

Maintenance

Due to system maintenance, all of ECHA's IT systems will be unavailable from 20:00 on Friday 5 October until 8:00 on Monday 8 October (Helsinki time).

Check latest maintenance message