You are a Luxembourgish company and you have questions on REACH or CLP?
The national REACH & CLP Helpdesk can help you!
On this website, you will find a selection of information on REACH and CLP that helps you to fulfill your obligations under REACH and CLP:
- What is REACH? explains the basic on REACH
- What is CLP? explains the basics on CLP
- Documentation provides the legal texts and guidance on REACH and CLP
- Tools contains an overview of tools for the implementation of REACH
- Public consultation explains where stakeholders can express their opinion and feed in information into the process.
- Links provides a list of links to useful source to get further information on REACH and CLP
For further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via the Contact form.
News
- 03.09.2010
ECHA has published proposals to identify eleven chemicals as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) and possible candidates for authorisation. Interested parties are invited to comment by 14 October 2010.
- 01.09.2010
During the Conseil du Gouvernement meeting of 30 July, a proposal for a new law on control and penalties in the context of REACH and CLP was adopted. Furthermore, a proposal for a regulation abrogating the regulation grand-ducal of 23 September 2005 on safety data sheet was also adopted.
For more information, see the minutes of the 30 July 2010 meeting. The final law is expected for beginning of 2011.
- 27.08.2010
Companies not registering by the 2010 registration deadline but who are nevertheless obliged to notify the Classification and Labelling of substances to ECHA as of 3 January 2011 can, in certain cases, keep the IUPAC name confidential.
- 26.08.2010
Version 1.1 of ECHA’s Chemical safety assessment and reporting tool, Chesar, and a new version of the IUCLID 5 Technical Completeness Check (TCC) plug-in are now available
- 24.08.2010
Before the summer break, ECHA added eight chemical substances to the Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) for authorisation.
- 24.08.2010
ECHA calls for information on the first two proposals for restriction under REACH and launched a public consultation on its draft recommendation of eight substances to be included in the Authorisation List (i.e. Annex XIV of the REACH Regulation).
- 16.07.2010
Please be informed that the CLP FAQ 1.1 update was published recently on the ECHA website.
- 16.07.2010
Commission Regulation (EU) No 440/2010 of 21 May 2010 on the fees payable to the European Chemicals Agency, linked to CLP regulation, entered in force on 25 May 2010.
- 16.07.2010
ECHA recently launched a public consultation on harmonising classification and labelling of two substances. These proposals are published by on ECHA website for comments, by parties concerned.
- 21.06.2010
In collaboration with ECHA, REACH & CLP Helpdesk organized a seminar on IT tools for the REACH registration, on 5 May 2010. This seminar, specially designed for member registrants, was divided in two parts: how to create a registration dossier in IUCLID 5.2 ? and how to submit a registration dossier in REACH-IT ?
- 07.06.2010
The REACH & CLP Helpdesk, in cooperation with chamber of crafts (Chambre des Métiers), chamber of commerce (Chambre de Commerce) and FEDIL, organised several information seminars on CLP from April to June 2010.
- 04.06.2010
· CLP: New manuals for REACH-IT users
· New CLP Leaflets
· ECHA’s web page on « How can I prepare and submit a notification?” updated
- 04.06.2010
The Commission Regulation 453/2010 – amending annex II of REACH has been published in the Official Journal on 31May 2010.
- 04.06.2010
New guidelines and tools :
· practical Guide 7 : How to notify substances in the Classification and Labelling Inventory ?
· ECHA Guidance Document on C&L harmonization updated
- 31.05.2010
ECHA has published new web pages to provide information and assistance to companies facing difficulties in sharing data required for their registration dossiers.
- 18.05.2010
ECHA has published seven Practical Guides to help registrants meet their information requirements for REACH registration. Furthermore, published a new guidance on waste and recovered substances and an update of the guidance on consumer exposure estimation (R.15).
- 18.05.2010
Downstream users of chemicals now have the chance to check whether the critical chemical substances that they need are going to be registered in time.
- 12.05.2010
The new Chemical Safety Assessment and Reporting tool, Chesar, is now available.
- 14.04.2010
New restrictions have been included into Annex XVII REACH for dichloromethane, lamp oils and grill lighter fluids and organostannic compounds.
- 12.04.2010
The REACH & CLP Helpdesk, in cooperation with chamber of crafts (Chambre des Métiers), chamber of commerce (Chambre de Commerce) and FEDIL, offers an information seminar on CLP, the new European regulation CLP on the classification, labelling and packaging of dangerous substances and mixtures.
- 11.04.2010
In cooperation with the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), we offer a seminar on IUCLID5.2, REACH-IT and the Technical Completeness Check Tool.
- 02.04.2010
ECHA has published a further extension of its guidance package with a new guidance on exemptions from the obligation to register, an update of the Guidance on Use Descriptor System and the translation of its Navigator tool in 20 EU languages.
- 01.04.2010
The European Chemicals Agency has added Acrylamide to the Candidate List of Substances Very High Concern (SVHC) for Authorisation.
- 25.03.2010
The new version of REACH-IT is now online. It includes new features such as group Classification and Labelling notifications, Legal Entity change and cease manufacture declarations.
- 24.03.2010
The enforcement of REACH in Luxembourg is coordinated in a joint Committee, the Comité REACH. The members of the Committee have been appointed and the Committee met for the first time on 18 March.
- 22.03.2010
Practice Directions are published by ECHA for companies and other interested parties wishing to appeal against certain decisions of ECHA. These Practice Directions are intended to help appellants and their representatives prepare appeals in the most effective way.
- 08.03.2010
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published on its website eight new proposals to identify chemicals as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC). Interested parties are welcomed to comment on these eight substances within the next 45 days.
- 08.03.2010
The Evaluation Report describes the progress the Agency has made in evaluating REACH registration dossiers in 2009 amd provides recommendations to registrants so that they can improve the quality of their dossiers.
- 16.02.2010
A new version of IUCLID is available on the IUCLID website.
- 11.02.2010
The European Commission published a flyer on the obligations and deadlines companies may face in 2010.
- 29.01.2010
The Committee for Risk Assessment (RAC) of ECHA has adopted opinions on the proposals for classification and labelling across Europe of three chemical substances as carcinogen, mutagen or toxic for reproduction.
- 18.01.2010
An update of the OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox is now available.
- 06.01.2010
ECHA has released an IT tool to enable companies to check the completeness of their registration dossiers or notifications themselves before submitting them to the Agency.
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