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PLEASE NOTE: due to exceptional circumstances, ECHA may take longer to process submitted information.

ECHA is currently relocating to new premises and will be closed from 21 December 2019 to 6 January 2020. Due to these exceptional circumstances, information that is submitted shortly before and during this time will only be read from 7 January onwards, and its processing time may take a few more days than usual.

With regard to the technical completeness check, ECHA may not be able to perform the check within three weeks of the submission date of your dossier [Article 20(2) of REACH].

Based on Article 21 of REACH, a registrant may start or continue the manufacture or import of a substance or production or import of an article, if there is no indication to the contrary from the Agency within the three weeks after the submission date.

However, this is without prejudice to Article 20(2), which requires registration dossiers to be complete. In the case where it may exceptionally not be possible to perform the technical completeness check in due time, ECHA reserves the right to get back to you as soon as the completeness check can be performed if the dossier is incomplete. In this case, ECHA will inform you as to what further information is required to complete the registration. You will be requested to update the dossier accordingly within a reasonable deadline.

Joint applications for authorisation are now entirely managed in REACH-IT.

Detailed instructions on how to submit a joint application will be available on the updated submission webpage for applications for authorisation at https://echa.europa.eu/applying-for-authorisation/submitting-applications-for-authorisation.

The REACH-IT online dossier tool for preparing joint submission member registrations is not being updated with the latest IUCLID version. This may lead to completeness check failures, e.g. when preparing a dossier covering substances in the nanoform.

For new registrations, please consider using one of the other tools offered by the Agency, such as the maintenance-free IUCLID 6 Cloud.

Access the IUCLID Cloud application: https://echa.europa.eu/support/dossier-submission-tools/echa-cloud-services

The Commission has published the Implementing Regulation clarifying which conditions stipulated in REACH for phase-in substances will no longer apply and by when. Please see the news on ECHA website: https://echa.europa.eu/-/rules-for-registration-of-phase-in-substances-clarified

Our support pages have three new sections; have a look at them here: https://echa.europa.eu/support/registration

-    You need to register before manufacturing or importing
-    Transitional period for phase-in substances
-    Practical advice about changes in registration

New version of IUCLID to support the Implementing Regulation has been published: https://iuclid6.echa.europa.eu/

As of 1 July 2019, ECHA will change the bank account details indicated on all invoices under the REACH regulation. ECHA’s new house bank is ING Belgium NV. Please instruct your accounting department accordingly.

- Bank: ING Belgium, Avenue Marnix 24, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
- IBAN: BE93 3631 8789 1767
- BIC/SWIFT: BBRUBEBB

For more details on the topic, please refer to our Q&As:

https://echa.europa.eu/support/qas-support/browse/-/qa/70Qx/view/ids/721

https://echa.europa.eu/support/qas-support/browse/-/qa/70Qx/view/ids/0739

Once your REACH dossier has been submitted make sure that you regularly check:

• The tasks section where you will receive important information that require and action from your side (invoice and invoice reminders related to your registration, TCC failures, etc.)
  
• The progress of your submission.

Make sure that the email indicated in the ‘Email notification settings’ of REACH-IT is up to date. A message will be sent to the provided address every time there is a new task in your REACH-IT account.

Check the ECHA Accounts manual for signing up: https://echa.europa.eu/support/dossier-submission-tools/reach-it

REACH-IT is open 24 hours/day, 7 days/week.

There will be maintenance breaks every Monday morning from 7:00 to 10:00 (GMT +3). During this time you will not be able to access REACH-IT.