Objectives
The LOA REACH Consortium’s purpose is to assist its Members with their REACH registrations in a cost efficient manner by combining financial and human resources. It also ensures that the documentation produced is fit for the purpose of supporting Member Companies' REACH registrations.
Scope
- ~170 Lower Olefin and Aromatic substances
Substances and UVCB* streams
- 15 Categories to Group UVCBs for data sharing
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Major activities are to:
- Develop joint technical dossiers for registration purposes
- Gather and assess existing studies
- Identify data gaps, apply read-across approaches where possible, assess opportunities for exposure-based waivers
- Develop and carry out testing proposals to close identified data gaps, prepare study summaries and robust study summaries
- Develop uniform classification and labelling proposals according to GHS**
- Prepare Chemical Safety Reports and “Guidance on safe use” in respect of uses common to at least half of the Members
- Perform risk assessments
- Initiate testing where required
Post-registration (December 2010), the LOA REACH Consortium may continue to be of service to its Members and assist with issues of common interest relating to evaluation and/or authorisation procedures under REACH.
*UVCB = Unknown, of Variable Composition, or of Biological Origin
**GHS - Globally Harmonized System (Classification and Labelling)