Via 3E The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on 1 March 2013 that it might provide industry stakeholders – in a number of exceptional cases – some leniency in meeting the upcoming 31 May deadline to register substances under the REACH Regulation (1907/2006/EC). Specifically, ECHA named four possible sets of circumstances where it may "offer help" to registrants struggling to meet the deadline "by relying on its discretionary rights under REACH or by providing companies with a transparent means to demonstrate good faith." The four scenarios, identified by the Directors' Contact Group (DCG) ahead of the first registration deadline in 2010, are: 1) Difficulties in providing data required in Annex VII and Annex VIII in due time or difficulties for importers of mixtures to obtain compositional and analytical data of the substances in the mixture from their suppliers; 2) Impossibility of submitting a late pre-registration due to legal entity changes; 3) Failure by the lead registrant to submit a fully REACH compliant dossier; and 4) Downstream users being obliged to become importers, as a substance is not registered by any EU-based supplier. If such circumstances apply, ECHA states, the affected companies will need to contact ECHA as far ahead of the 31 May deadline as possible, providing detailed justification of the situation and an explanation of the measures taken to comply with obligations under REACH. Upon receiving this information, ECHA says it will provide instructions on how to submit a registration by the deadline.
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press release.
