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

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)