Top tips on getting started in SIEFS

Top tips on getting started in SIEFS

ECHA has published a REACH Fact Sheet providing registrants top tips on how to get started in SIEFs (Substance Information Exchange Fora). SIEFs have a critical role within REACH. SIEFs are formed by companies that intend to register the same substance. One of their tasks is to facilitate data sharing between the companies, and hence avoid duplication of studies and unnecessary animal testing.

Industry has made ECHA aware that there have been difficulties in getting some SIEFs started and potential problems with communication between members. The fact sheet presents the key advice from ECHA on getting started in SIEFs.

Start now!
If you have pre-registered a substance that you intend to register, it is really important that you get involved in the most appropriate SIEF for your substance as soon as possible. The deadlines are tight. The deadlines for submission of registrations are laid down in the REACH regulation and ECHA does not have the power to change them. In practice this means that if you don’t have a valid registration by the appropriate deadline, your manufacture or import would need to cease.

Further information on the REACH Fact Sheet – Getting Started in SIEFs – Top Tips, read here.