On November 8, 2010, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) issued a statement on its website, strongly recommending that the lead registrants of relevant substances under the REACH regulations submit registration dossiers in the last two weeks before the registration deadline of November 30, in order to Other Substance Information Exchange Forum members have sufficient time to submit registration dossiers to ECHA. The report states that over the next two weekends, the REACH-IT system will remain open, which means that the REACH-IT system will be open from 10.00 on November 15 (GMT 2) until 24.00 on November 30 (Eastern European Standard Time). ECHA expects to receive more than 10,000 registration dossiers between now and the registration deadline. In addition, ECHA also strongly recommends that all registration applicants submit registration dossiers before November 28, so that before the deadline, they still have time to correct the problems found when ECHA reviews the dossier. Recently, the number of unqualified registration dossiers has been on the rise, which ECHA believes is due to registrants not being familiar enough with the submission process. In view of this, ECHA decided to hold a webinar on November 15 to help these companies that need to register. ECHA also announced that the REACH – IT system will be closed for one day on December 1 to upgrade the classification, labeling and packaging content of Article 58 of REACH.
