Seven Substances of Very High Concern will be added to the Candidate List
During its 18th meeting, the Member State Committee unanimously agreed on four draft decisions based on ECHA’s testing proposal examination and on five draft decisions based on compliance checks. The Candidate List will be updated soon as the seven new substances and the “toxic for reproduction” will be added as the basis for identification as an Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) for cobaltdichloride.
ECHA, the European Chemicals Agency, has commenced the evaluation of the dossiers from the first registrations, thus the number of dossier evaluation cases to be addressed in the Member State Committee (MSC) is expected to grow rapidly. At this point, the total number of MSC unanimous agreements on draft dossier evaluation decisions in 2011 is already higher than the total number of cases last year.
MSC agreed unanimously to:
- Four draft decisions on testing proposals confirming the testing proposals of the registrants as such or with some modifications.
- Five draft decisions on compliance checks. These would require the registrant, for example, to refine the exposure assessment, the justification for Derived No Effect Levels (DNELs) and the assessment factors used in calculations when extrapolating the effects from animals to humans. In some other cases the draft decisions would request the registrant to provide missing information on environmental effects, like toxicity to aquatic organisms, terrestrial organisms and plants. In some draft decisions, compliance check information gaps regarding repeated dose toxicity and reproductive toxicity are also addressed.
In addition the MSC had already agreed on two additional draft decisions on compliance checks and on one additional decision on a testing proposal. European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will take the final decisions in accordance with the MSC unanimous agreement.
New substances identified
The seven new substances identified as SVHCs are: 2-ethoxyethylacetate, strontium chromate, 1,2-Benzenedicarboxylic acid, di-C7-11 branched and linear alkyl esters (DHNUP), hydrazine, 1-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, 1,2,3-trichloropropane, 1,2-benzenedicarboxylic acid, di-C6-8-branched alkyl esters, C7-rich (DIHP).
As a result of the procedure for identification as SVHC a new identification basis (toxic for reproduction) will be added for cobaltdichloride that is already on the Candidate List because of its carcinogenic hazards.