Soluzioni IT Newsletter

July 2010
Issue 2

An “hot” autumn for chemicals management ?

Editorial

Summer is here, but companies keeps

The risk of leaving registration until the last
minute
Companies that submit registration dossiers early -
st
before next 1 October - will get their Completeness
Check result within 3 weeks and will have the time to
resubmit.
Should they fail the second time, they can even start
the process again provided they are in a position to
st
make a new submission before 1 December.
However, those submitting late will have only one
chance to get through the entire registration process
successfully.
This is because for dossiers arriving after 30
September, ECHA examines the dossier on arrival,
and - if the dossier is not complete - writes to the
st
registrant before 1 March 2011.
Companies then will get a reasonable deadline
(typically a further four months) to provide the
information requested by ECHA.
If that information is not provided satisfactorily, then
the registration has failed and there is no second
chance.
The company does not receive a registration number
and the substance cannot legally be manufactured or
imported in the European Union. The manufacturing
or import since the registration deadline will have
been illegal.
Submitting early will prevent companies being in this
uncertain situation which could be a risk to their
business.
ECHA has warmly recommended that companies do
not leave it until the last minute.
their attention high on forthcoming
deadlines on notification and
registration of chemical substances.
Next months will be decisive in order to
finalize the needed procedures and to
defend the business.
Some other interesting topics such as
food flavourings and additives for use
in plastic food contact materials are
also treated in this Issue.
Good reading and… happy holidays !
Stefano Colicchia
SVHC, 8 new substances
The European Chemicals Agency, has
added 8 chemical substances to the
Candidate List of Substances of Very
High Concern (SVHC) for authorisation.
which now contains 38 substances in
total.
The 8 new substances, which are
carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic
(CMR) substances, are:
• Trichloroethylene
• Boric acid
• Disodium tetraborate, anhydrous
• Tetraboron disodium heptaoxide,
hydrate
• Sodium chromate
• Potassium chromate
• Ammonium dichromate
• Potassium dichromate
Read the full story on:
http://echa.europa.eu/doc/press/pr_10_
12_candidate_list_20100618.pdf
Our article on NCEC newsletter

The article “Firms could cut costs by

outsourcing regulatory compliance – the
evidence” was published on latest issue of UK
National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC)
newsletter
Read the full article on http://the-
ncec.com/may-2010 looking for chapter 3 “Cut
Costs by Outsourcing”

New requirements for SDS, amendment to

Annex II published

An amendment to the REACH Regulation's

provisions on Safety Data Sheets was published
in the Official Journal
New Regulation 453/2010/EC adapts the SDS
provisions in Annex II of REACH to Regulation
1272/2008 on harmonised classification,
packaging and labelling of substances and
mixtures, the EU's GHS implementation.
The new MSDS provisions apply from 1
December 2010.
Full text can be downloaded from
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:133:SO
M:EN:HTML
Food flavourings, guidance on the data
needed for risk assessment published
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
has published a guidance about the data
required for the evaluation of flavourings
Part A provides a proposal concerning the data
required for the risk assessment of flavouring
substances, i.e. chemically defined substances
with flavouring properties.
Part B provides a proposal concerning the data
required for the risk assessment of categories
of flavourings other than flavouring substances
for which an evaluation and an approval is
required according to Article 9 (b) – (f) of the
Regulation 1334/2008/EC on flavourings and
certain food ingredients with flavourings
properties for use in and on foods
The document can be downloaded on
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/scdocs/scdoc/162
3.htm?WT.mc_id=EFSAHL01&emt=1
New SIN List database released
ChemSec has announced a new user
interface for version 1.1 of their SIN
(Substitute It Now) list with the aim to
help legislators, journalists, consumers,
investors and manufacturers retrieve
information regarding the 356 high-
concern chemicals currently included on
the SIN List.
The database can be consulted at the
following web address
http://www.sinlist.org/
Additives for use in plastic food
contact materials, updated list
An updated version of the provisional list of
additives for use in plastic food contact
materials and articles has been recently
published by the European Commission.
The list can be downloaded from :
http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/chemicalsafety/f
oodcontact/docs/080410_provisional_list_7_2
11009.pdf
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