ECHA Weekly - 31 January 2024

ECHA

ECHA sets out strategic goals for next five years

We have published our Strategy Statement for 2024-2028. It details our goals and priorities over the next five years to protect health and the environment through our work for chemical safety.

Does your company have expertise in hazard assessment and identification?

We are preparing a new procurement addressing emerging regulatory challenges related to (eco)toxicological and environmental fate assessments of substances. We will also need support in evaluation and hazard identification.

If you want to get notified when the contract notice and all procurement documents are published, subscribe to the Prior Information Notice.

REACH

Submission of octocrilene restriction report postponed

The submission of the Annex XV restriction report on octocrilene (EC 228-250-8) by France is postponed from 4 October 2024 to 10 January 2025.

CLP

New intentions to harmonise classification and labelling

Three intentions have been submitted for:

• perhydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (EC 204-500-1, CAS 121-82-4);
• octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (EC 220-260-0, CAS 2691-41-0); and
• Mono- and di-phthalate esters with linear and/or branched alkyl moieties with at least one longest continuous carbon chain counted from the ester function corresponding to C4-C6 and/or with C6 cyclic saturated carbon chains and/or with unsaturated hydrocarbyl moieties (EC -, CAS -).

Webinars

OECD QSAR Assessment Framework in REACH dossier evaluation: what you need to know

Join our webinar on 21 March 2024 at 11:00 Helsinki time and learn how the QSAR Assessment Framework applies to REACH dossier evaluation.

We will take a deeper look into the incorporation of the recently released OECD QSAR Assessment Framework (QAF) into ECHA's evaluation of (Q)SAR studies in REACH registrations.