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European Commission’s public consultation on postponing harmonised rules for poison centres notification31 July 2019

European Commission has launched a public consultation on postponing the compliance date to submit information on hazardous chemical mixtures for consumer use. Companies have to notify the national poison centres to facilitate adequate emergency health response. The draft regulation proposes to postpone the first compliance date from 1 January 2020 to 1 January 2021.

  • 22 July 2019 New version of the ECHA Submission portal released
    New features in version 1.1 of the ECHA Submission portal are now available. New improvements have been made in the guided dossier preparation functionality as well in the preview notification functionality, validation assistant, and the submission of notifications.
  • 22 July 2019 Updated Guidance on harmonised information relating to emergency health response published
    Updated Guidance on harmonised information relating to emergency health response published
  • 14 May 2019 Follow the webstream: training on poison centre notifications on 21 May 2019
    The ECHA Conference ‘Safer Chemicals’ on 21-22 May will offer insight into the current priorities in EU chemicals regulation after the final REACH registration deadline. A full-day training on poison centres notifications will take place on 21 May 2019.
  • 24 April 2019 ECHA Submission portal now available
    The first release of the ECHA Submission portal for poison centres notifications is now available. The portal is a secure, online way to centrally manage notifications for hazardous mixtures and is available for use by industry and Member States’ appointed bodies.
  • 9 April 2019 Poison Centres Notification format updated to version 1.1
    Version 1.0 of the Poison Centres Notification (PCN) format was published in April 2018. A pilot project was launched shortly after in order to assess its usability, in collaboration with the relevant stakeholders in Industry, appointed bodies and poison centres. As a result, the identified fixes and improvements have now been taken into consideration and a slightly revised version (1.1) is available in the section dedicated to the PCN format on the Poison Centres website.