From the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA):
"To ensure increased compliance of REACH registration dossiers, ECHA carries out
both full compliance checks of the dossiers and now more effectively also
targets its evaluation to specific parts of them.
In a full compliance check, ECHA addresses the full dossier content in a
single evaluation exercise, especially for randomly selected registration
dossiers. This means that ECHA performs a systematic evaluation of all
information requirements in the technical dossier (e.g. physico-chemical,
environmental and human health endpoints), including the corresponding elements
and conclusions provided in the chemical safety report (i.e. PBT/vPvB
assessment, classification and labelling, exposure assessment and risk
characterisation). Where a dossier is non-compliant with an information
requirement, ECHA will request the information in a single decision. The
decision is taken in cooperation with the Member States.
In a targeted compliance check, 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.
Emphasis will be given to Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT);
Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or Toxic to reproduction (CMR); or sensitising (S)
properties of a substance. IT-assisted targeting combined with expert judgement
will help to achieve the necessary increased compliance of the registration
dossiers. The chances of non-compliant dossiers being picked up for compliance
check are now higher. Dossiers submitted individually outside an existing joint
submission and dossiers with obviously incomplete essential elements will be
automatically selected for compliance check."
The full press release can be read here.
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