How ECHA can support new
registrants
Ninth Stakeholders’ Day
21 May 2014
Javier Sánchez Saez
European Chemicals Agency
Content
• What do we expect in 2018?
• Organising our support
• Key messages for new
registrants
What do we expect in 2018?
Substances
Dossiers
2010
2013
2018 ?
~ 3 400
~ 3 000
Up to 25 000
plus intermediates
~ 20 000
~ 9 000
Up to 70 000
• Multitude of small SIEFs
• Individual registrants
• Higher % of SMEs
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Content
• What do we expect in 2018?
• Organising our support
• Key messages for new
registrants
ECHA support on REACH registration
• ECHA support material
• Guidance, webinars, website
• ECHA’s IT tools
• IUCLID – Validation assistant, fee and dissemination
plugins
• Chesar
• REACH-IT
• ECHA individual support to company
• Helpdesk
• One-to-one sessions
How can we improve?
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Organising our support for 2018
• Understanding needs of 2018 registrants
“Too much
guidance”
“More specific
user-focused
advice”
“Complex IT
tools”
“Unfair sharing
of costs”
……….
• Targeted support for 2018 registration deadline
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Focus on needs of 2018 registrants
Aim: support for each step towards registration
Pre-SIEF
•Does
Registration
2018
concern me?
Scope
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•Find coregistrants
•Substance
identity
•Agree how
to work
•Data and
cost
sharing
SIEF
Registration
dossier
•Uses
•Fill data gaps
•Hazard & risk
assessment
•Submit
registration
dossier
Registration
number
7
2018 Registration Roadmap
• Specific output of the 2014 ECHA Work Programme
• 2014 will be the year of reflection and review of ECHA
processes, IT tools, support material and communication
• Objectives
• By 2016, adapt and streamline procedures, IT tools and
support to registrants
• Special focus on SME needs
• But will benefit all companies who register in 2018
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2018 Registration Roadmap: timeline
• Actions agreed by the end of 2014
• Consultation with stakeholders June - September
• Actions will cover each key step towards
registration, examples:
• Dedicated webpage for 2018 registration
• Sector-specific advice on substance identity
• Enhanced data and cost sharing information
• Revised IUCLID and REACH-IT
• Activities implemented in 2015-2018
• Revised IT tools are scheduled to be ready by early 2016
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Content
• What do we expect in 2018?
• Organising our support
• Key messages for new
registrants
Key messages for new registrants - 1
• Substance already registered by another
company?
• Yes – Contact the lead registrant, verify substance
sameness, SIEF agreement, share data, collect uses
• No – Contact pre-SIEF members to establish
sameness, lead registrant and SIEF agreement
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Key messages for new registrants - 2
• Registration deadline 2018
1-100 tonnes
• 1 – 10 tonnes: REACH Annex VII
• 10 – 100 tonnes: REACH Annex VII, Annex VIII plus
chemical safety assessment
• First key step: clearly identify your substances
to be registered
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Thank you
javier.sanchez-saez@echa.europa.eu
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