1. Soluzioni IT Newsletter
July 2010
Issue 2
An “hot” autumn for chemicals management ?
Editorial
Summer is here, but companies keeps
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 !
The risk of leaving registration until the last
minute
Stefano Colicchia
Companies that submit registration dossiers early -
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before next 1 October - will get their Completeness
Check result within 3 weeks and will have the time to
resubmit. SVHC, 8 new substances
Should they fail the second time, they can even start The European Chemicals Agency, has
the process again provided they are in a position to added 8 chemical substances to the
st
make a new submission before 1 December. Candidate List of Substances of Very
However, those submitting late will have only one
High Concern (SVHC) for authorisation.
chance to get through the entire registration process which now contains 38 substances in
successfully. total.
This is because for dossiers arriving after 30 The 8 new substances, which are
September, ECHA examines the dossier on arrival, carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic
and - if the dossier is not complete - writes to the (CMR) substances, are:
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registrant before 1 March 2011.
Companies then will get a reasonable deadline • Trichloroethylene
(typically a further four months) to provide the • Boric acid
information requested by ECHA. • Disodium tetraborate, anhydrous
If that information is not provided satisfactorily, then • Tetraboron disodium heptaoxide,
the registration has failed and there is no second hydrate
chance. • Sodium chromate
The company does not receive a registration number • Potassium chromate
and the substance cannot legally be manufactured or • Ammonium dichromate
imported in the European Union. The manufacturing • Potassium dichromate
or import since the registration deadline will have
been illegal.
Read the full story on:
Submitting early will prevent companies being in this http://echa.europa.eu/doc/press/pr_10_
uncertain situation which could be a risk to their 12_candidate_list_20100618.pdf
business.
ECHA has warmly recommended that companies do
not leave it until the last minute.

2. 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 New SIN List database released
provisions in Annex II of REACH to Regulation
1272/2008 on harmonised classification, ChemSec has announced a new user
packaging and labelling of substances and interface for version 1.1 of their SIN
mixtures, the EU's GHS implementation. (Substitute It Now) list with the aim to
help legislators, journalists, consumers,
The new MSDS provisions apply from 1 investors and manufacturers retrieve
December 2010. information regarding the 356 high-
Full text can be downloaded from concern chemicals currently included on
the SIN List.
http://eur-
lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:133:SO The database can be consulted at the
M:EN:HTML following web address
http://www.sinlist.org/
Food flavourings, guidance on the data
needed for risk assessment published Additives for use in plastic food
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) contact materials, updated list
has published a guidance about the data An updated version of the provisional list of
required for the evaluation of flavourings additives for use in plastic food contact
materials and articles has been recently
Part A provides a proposal concerning the data
published by the European Commission.
required for the risk assessment of flavouring
substances, i.e. chemically defined substances The list can be downloaded from :
with flavouring properties.
http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/chemicalsafety/f
Part B provides a proposal concerning the data
oodcontact/docs/080410_provisional_list_7_2
required for the risk assessment of categories 11009.pdf
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 Via F.lli Bandiera, 3
properties for use in and on foods I-20020 Arconate (MI)
ITALY
The document can be downloaded on
Mobile : +39-346-740.3491
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/scdocs/scdoc/162 info@compliance2business.eu
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