INTRODUCTION | LEGAL BACKGROUND | HISTORY OF THE LEGISLATION | BASIS OF REACH | EXEMPT MATERIALS | DEFINITIONS | PRE-REGISTRATION | SIEF FORMATION | SUBSTANCE SAMENESS | DATA EVALUATION | CONSIDERING NEW TESTING | THE EXPOSURE SCENARIO | RISK ASSESSMENT | COMMUNICATION |
REGISTRATION PROCESS | SPECIAL CASES | DOWNSTREAM USER OBLIGATIONS | AUTHORISATION AND RESTRICTION | AFTER REGISTRATION | ABBREVIATIONS

PRE-REGISTRATION (MAINLY COMPLETED DECEMBER 2008)

The first real practical activity industry faced was ‘Pre-registration’. The purpose was to identify at an early stage of the process exactly which substances we are buying in, producing, extracting, importing and supplying.

A major reason for the ritual of pre-registration was also to bring members of industry together who are interested in supplying the same substances so they can get together and avoid duplicating animal testing – the SIEF (substance information exchange forum). Pre-registration had a deadline of December 2008 to allow a line to be drawn and for SIEF formation to start, but ‘late pre-registration’ options are still open in some cases.

Late pre-registration is aimed to allow continued commercial activity of responding to customer needs to manufacture or import new chemical substances. The criteria for late pre-registration is that the substance should be on EINECS or NLP and that supply is new for you; ie. the reason you did not pre-register before 1 December 2008 was that you genuinely believed supply would not take place.