Providing high-quality data in REACHdossiers is the industry’s utmost priority and we continuously work with theEuropean Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to make sure any data and knowledge gaps areaddressed.
We support ECHA’s new approach in 2019 to send decisions on registration dossiers to all registrants of a chemical, not only to the lead registrant. We believe this will accelerate the generation of additional data by all members of a consortium if requested by ECHA.
One of our priority areas for collaboration with ECHA this year is the development of “best practices” on defining testing strategies for substances, aligned with ECHA’s expectations. This will help to keep animal testing to a strict minimum, as mandated by REACH, and will decrease the number of requests for additional data and tests by ECHA without compromising the quality of safety data.
This work is part of Cefic’songoing ActionPlan on REACH dossier improvement launched in2019. More than 170 companies have already joined this voluntary Action Plan pledging to review chemicalssafety data in their dossiers. In practice, this means that the dossiers of nearly70% of all substances registered in the high volumes (above 100 tonnes) will bereviewed and, if needed, improved over the coming years in close collaboration with ECHA.Cefic will report on the progress of the Action Plan at the end of March.