REACH 2018
Find your co-registrants
and prepare to register
jointly
Purpose of this presentation
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This presentation, with notes, was prepared by ECHA, the European Chemicals
Agency, to assist you in preparing a presentation about REACH 2018, i.e. the
last registration deadline of phase-in substances. The intention is that you can
select relevant slides and modify them as necessary to suit your audience,
whether it is management, workers, environmental health and safety
professionals, authorities etc. You may use it without additional permission.
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This presentation gives a brief overview of phase 2 (Find your co-registrants) of
ECHA’s REACH 2018 Roadmap. It belongs to a series of presentations relating
to REACH 2018, which are on ECHA’s website. We welcome your comments and
suggestions at: [email protected].
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Legal notice: The information contained in this presentation does not
constitute legal advice and does not necessarily represent in legal terms the
official position of the European Chemicals Agency. The European Chemicals
Agency does not accept any liability with regard to the contents of this
document.
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Release: May 2017
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REACH registration 2018
Phase 2 activities
1. Find out if your substances are already registered
2. Verify your pre-registrations
3. Find and contact your co-registrants
4. Establish substance sameness
5. Prepare for working together in the SIEF
SIEF – Substance information
exchange forum
• Cooperation of companies for joint registration of
the same substance
• Increase knowledge on your substance
• Reduce costs of registration for everyone
• Avoid duplication of animal tests
• Share data on the substance and costs
• Pre-registration > pre-SIEF > SIEF > joint
registration
Find out if your substance is
already registered
• ECHA database of registered substances
• List of lead registrants
• In REACH-IT: Menu  Joint submissions 
provide identifiers of your substance
NO:
create a new SIEF
YES:
join an existing SIEF
Verify your pre-registration
• Gives you the right to be on the market
until 31 May 2018
• need a pre-registration for each substance you
need to register
• In REACH-IT
• make sure you can access your account: need
your user name and password
• Starting point for co-registrants to find
each other
• make sure your contact details are up to date
If the substance is not
registered yet
• Find your co-registrants in pre-SIEF in REACH-IT
• Contact: by email
• As a SIEF formation facilitator (SFF), you can
indicate in REACH-IT that/where you want to find
and discuss with co-registrants
• SIEFs may be small or you may be the only
registrant
Substance identity profile (SIP)
1. Name
2. Other identifiers (e.g. EC, CAS)
3. Composition (boundary composition)
for the jointly registered substance
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Establish substance sameness
Follows from your substance identification
• Co-registrants determine the name of
their substance according to the
ECHA guidance, considering the
composition and type of the substance
• If the name of the substance is the same, the
substance is the same
• Together, determine the substance identity profile
(SIP) and boundary composition(s) of the
substance to be registered jointly
Boundary composition
• Essentially defined in terms of identity of
constituents and their concentration ranges
• May also include additional identifiers
• e.g. for UVCB substances
• Can evolve over time
• Ensure that the composition of your substance is
within the agreed boundary composition
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If the substance is already
registered
• Check the list of registrants on ECHA’s website
• For your pre-registered substances, you can find
the contact details of the lead registrant by
searching for the joint submission in REACH-IT
• You may have received email from the SIEF
• Contact the SIEF by email
• Confirm that your substance identity fits the SIP
of the joint registration
Take away messages
• Check which of your substances is already registered and
which are not
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If your substance is not registered, you will need to form a new SIEF with your
co-registrants
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If your substance is already registered, you will need to join the existing SIEF
• Get in contact with the pre-SIEF/SIEF members or lead
registrant. Be active
• Agree on substance sameness
• Identify those substances for which you are alone and you
have no data. Get help if these are business critical substances
• Support is available at https://echa.europa.eu/reach-2018