Practical Steps for

REACH Pre-Registration

KEY POINTERS:

Pre-registration applies only to so-called ‘phase-in’ substances. If you wish to benefit from the extended registration deadlines and you are a potential registrant of a phase-in substances you should pre-register.

Detailed information can be found in the guidance document ‘Guidance on Registration’ (Section 1.7.1.1 – Phase-in Substances).

The information required by ECHA in order to fulfil the obligations of pre-registration are:-

The name of the substance identified by the EINECS, CAS, IUPAC-name or other identity codes.

The name of your company, the address and the name of the contact person:

When your company consists of several legal entities, manufacturing in the EU or importing the same substance each legal entity has to pre-register separately;

You can appoint a third party representative to represent you for all the proceedings involving discussions with other manufacturers, importers and downstream users. If you do not wish to make your contact details available to other pre-registrants you should use a third party representative.

The envisaged registration deadline and the tonnage band;

Optionally, identifiers of related substances which may be relevant for deriving data for the substance pre-registered. This is a way to indicate which data can be shared by read-across, (quantitative) structure-activity relationships ((Q)SARs)) and grouping of substances.

All pre-registrations have to be submitted electronically via the REACH-IT web application accessible from ECHA website in the format specified by ECHA. When you enter the pre-registration application access point you will be guided through dedicated pages where you can choose between the two following possibilities to pre-register your substances:

On-line pre-registration by entering the required information directly, substance by substance into the REACH-IT system;

Submission of a pre-registration as an XML file prepared separately in a specified electronic file format and uploaded at the moment of the pre-registration via REACH-IT. It allows you to submit one or more file(s) with the required pre-registration information for one or multiple substances.

These are the only alternatives to submit a pre-registration.

LINKS TO RELATED MATERIAL:

REACH Regulation EC No 1907/2006

http://eur.lex.europa.eu/JOHtml.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:136:SOM:EN.HTML

REACH Guidance Documents

http://reach.jrc.it/guidance_en.thm

Guidance on Registration

http://reach.jrc.it/docs/guidance_document/registration_en.htm

Guidance on Data Sharing

http://reach.jrc.it/docs/guidance_document/data_sharing_en.htm

Guidance for Substance Identification and Naming of Substances Under REACH

http://reach.jrc.it/docs/guidance_document/substance_id_en.htm