Why you should join the REACH Chrome Metal Consortium

REACH places significant burden on individual companies and the obligations under the REACH Regulation will notably lead to a lot of costs for these companies.

In addition, REACH creates obligations on companies to work together for the fulfilment of their individual obligations. First, REACH creates an obligation on potential registrants of the same substance to collaborate within the Substance Information Exchange Forum (SIEF) and eventually share certain data. Moreover, the REACH Regulation imposes an obligation on the registrants of the same dossier to submit jointly the technical part of the technical dossier.

In view of the above described obligation, the advantages of joining the REACH Chrome Metal Consortium can be summarised as follows:

• Pooling of resources and costs reduction for:
• Existing Study reports/Data
• In-house expertise
• Cost-sharing for chemical safety report and testing
• Budget and plan for compliance in a transparent and managed structure.
• Work with categories of substances as opposed with one substance per SIEF.
• Vertebrate animal studies must be shared in any event and within the Consortium, vertebrate animal studies owner can ensure that the consortium members will reimburse a portion of the testing costs it had to bear.
• Lead Registrant can work to ensure that the best scientific case is developed and that the Classification and Labeling is accurate and uniform
• Consortia members benefit from reduced registration fees
• Individual dossiers will have priority attention for Evaluation
• Coordinated responses to agency, joint appeals of test requirements
• Protection of Confidential information
• Protection against the risks associated with competition law
• Develop a strong, collective approach to regulatory authorities for decisions made jointly.