REACH - ECHA publishes list of pre-registered substances

A list of almost 145,000 substances pre-registered by EU firms between June and December 2008 has now been published by ECHAⁱ, the European Chemicals Agency. The number of substances on the list is expected to decrease as a result of an ongoing screening process. ECHA received a total of 2.75 million pre-registrations, far more than initially anticipated. It will remove from the list any entries that are irrelevant as well as those submitted by non-European firms. An updated list will be published at a later stage.

The list’s publication triggers the next phase of the REACHⁱ process, in which firms making or importing the same chemical will share data in Substance information exchange fora (SIEFs). SIEFs will coordinate many aspects of the full Registration process, which will take several years.

The list of pre-registered substances can be accessed from the ECHA website: