A quarter of UK REACH pre-registrations to advance to registration

ERJ staff report (DS)

London - A survey by UK-based Chemical Business Association suggests that around a quarter of all pre-registrations under the REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of CHemicals) legislation will progress to full registrations. This is significantly higher than the original estimate by EChA, the European Chemicals Agency charged with implementing REACH.

CBA's Director, Peter Newport said, “At the pre-registration stage, it was far from clear how REACH implementation would develop in practice and many companies adopted a precautionary approach in order to safeguard their commercial position.”

The CBA companies responding to the survey had notified 8000 substance pre-registrations to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Of these, around 2000 are likely to proceed to formal registration. “If this conversion rate of 25% applies more broadly, it will mean that ECHA's original estimates for the number of full registrations will be massively exceeded,” explained Newport

CBA has therefore restated its concerns that ECHA revenue from registration fees will be much higher than predicted - and would not represent a funding shortfall as is currently being claimed by the Agency's Executive Director, Geert Dancet.

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Press release from CBA