EChA introduces more compliance checks

ERJ staff report (DS)

Helsinki, Finland -- ECHA is introducing a new systematic targeting of compliance checks. This will increase the chances for dossiers of insufficient compliance to be scrutinised and should ensure higher compliance of REACH registrations. The new checks are a less resource-intensive check than the current full compliance procedures.

In a full compliance check, ECHA addresses the full dossier content in a single evaluation exercise, especially for randomly selected registration dossiers.

Under the new targeted compliance checks, ECHA evaluates only a specific part of the registration dossier based on specified concerns. Selected (groups of) endpoints or criteria, called areas of concern, have been identified that are in particular relevant for the safe use of substances. The ultimate goal is to focus on those endpoints that matter for human health and the environment.

The consequence of the targeted compliance check is that if the dossier contains several non-compliances registrants may in the near future receive more than one draft decision per registration dossier at different moments in time. ECHA invites registrants who receive a first draft decision as a result of these targeted compliance checks, to re-assess the overall quality of their registration dossier and prepare updates where necessary.

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Press release from EChA