Postponement of compliance date for reporting to poison centres23 September 2019
The CARACAL (expert group on CLP) has agreed unanimously to the European Commission’s proposed changes to Annex VIII to CLP. The Commission is now proceeding with adopting a delegated act, which will, among other things, postpone the first compliance date for harmonised reporting to poison centres, for mixtures intended for consumer use, from 1 January 2020 to 1 January 2021.
- 31 July 2019 European Commission’s public consultation on postponing harmonised rules for poison centres notification 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.
- 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.
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