ECHA recently released a newsletter. ECHA’s executive director Bjorn Hansen mentioned that improving the compliance of registration dossiers and accelerating evaluation work are ECHA’s current priorities in 2019.
ECHA has been mobilizing resources internally since the beginning of 2019 to simplify and accelerate assessment work and improve the compliance of registration dossiers. ECHA also encourages the Commission and Member States to join so that assessments can be accelerated and ultimately registered substances will have the correct data so that industry can implement correct risk management measures.
In April this year, ECHA, together with the EU member states, released the first Integrated Regulatory Strategy (Integrated Regulatory Strategy) report for registered substances on the EU market.
The report shows that as of May 2018, approximately 19,000 substances have been registered. ECHA and EU member states have completed the evaluation of approximately 2,520 registered substances in the past ten years, and These registered substances are divided into the following three categories based on the completeness of the data and whether further risk management is required:
1. High-priority substances for risk management
This category contains approximately 270 substances.
These substances are considered to be substances of clear concern, and further regulatory risk management (regulatory risk management) is ongoing or can be initiated based on existing data.
Most of these substances were identified through screening. After more in-depth work, the authorities will initiate harmonization of hazard classification and determine whether they are SVHC and whether they need to be included in restrictions. or carry out other legislative actions, etc.
2. High priority substances requiring supplementary data and further evaluation
This category contains approx. 1300 substances.
These substances are of potential concern and new hazard data need to be supplemented, or authorities need to evaluate existing data in more detail to decide whether these substances require further Regulatory risk management.
3. Low priority substances for further regulatory action
This category contains approximately 950 substances .
About 450 of these substances are fully regulated, such as those on the candidate list; approximately 500 substances have been assessed as low-priority substances.
Among the registered substances as of May 2018, there are still 16,480 substances that have not been evaluated and cannot be clearly classified into the above three categories. ECHA and EU member states will make every effort to conduct assessments starting this year and classify all registered substances into corresponding categories.
The Comprehensive Supervisory Strategy Report states that ECHA and EU Member States develop plans:
In 2020 Complete the classification of all registered substances greater than 100 tons/year into the three major categories before 2027
Complete the classification of all registered substances between 1-100 tons/year into the three major categories before 2027 Classification
REACH regulations have entered the evaluation phase after a ten-year long registration phase. It is also obvious from the dossier evaluation status published on the ECHA website that the speed of dossier evaluation is obviously increasing. Currently, about 50 registered substances start dossier evaluation every month.
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