New policy from ECHA on dossier updates during substance evaluation

Apr 24, 2020

From 14 April 2020, ECHA starts applying a new policy regarding dossier updates during substance evaluation. The Agency and evaluating Member States will not take dossier update into account after registrants have received a draft decision for commenting. If...

Disclosure of more information in the opinions on applications for authorisation

Apr 24, 2020

The quantities emitted in the environment of non-threshold substances (for example environmental endocrine disruptors, PBTs and vPvBs) and the release factors will now be published in the opinions on applications for authorisation. In case the confidentiality on the...

Completeness check of chemical safety reports postponed until October 2020

Apr 9, 2020

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and to help companies which may face difficulties, ECHA has postponed the manual completeness checks to chemical safety reports to October 2020. The remaining changes to the completeness check will take effect on submissions as of...