The Challenge...
...the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (“REACH”) imposes on manufacturers and importers an obligation to register substances.
Whereas considering the effort required by regulatory obligations, it is necessary:
to increase the efficiency of generating information and
to reduce related costs.
The members, with a view to fulfilling their regulatory obligations, wish resp. need to form a consortium open to any other interested manufacturers subject to criteria defined hereunder in order to:
share data
review available data
identify data gaps
propose additional testing
perform such testing where necessary
subject to an agreement on a case-by-case basis
compile and submit a harmonized set of data for registration and
coordinate the response to any additional requirements under the REACH regulation that may result from that submission
operate the consortium in a cost-efficient manner.
