Organic Pigments REACH consortia
12 leading manufacturers and importers, with wide-ranging experience and know-how in organic pigments have combined their resources in relation to their REACH compliance activities and in February 2009 formed 7 consortia to cover a total of 43 pigments.
Consortium description
Through the 7 Organic Pigments REACH consortia, manufacturers and importers have decided to join efforts to prepare harmonised and consistent registration dossiers. For each consortium there is one Lead Company appointed, which is in charge of the project management. The four multi-substances consortia are supported by ReachCentrum, the three single substance consortia are managed exclusively by the Lead Company - Clariant.
Substances covered
The 43 substances, which are intended to be registered under the REACH legislation by 1 December 2010, are covered in 7 Organic Pigment REACH consortia. The substances covered in the Organic Pigments consortia can be found in the Organic Pigments substances list.
Membership
Each of the 7 consortia comprises a Steering Committee and Technical Committee, managed by the Lead Company and in case of the multi-substances consortia by ReachCentrum. Each consortium is open, at any time, to SIEF manufacturers, importers and only representatives, as defined in the REACH Regulation, or their affiliates, of a substance on its own, in preparations or in articles and which is subject to REACH Regulation registration requirements.
Membership is open to any registrant fulfilling the membership criteria, and who is willing to play an active role in the work of the consortium. A preliminary requirement is that any prospective new member of a consortium signs a secrecy agreement regarding use of information and data held by the consortium, to enable a decision to be made on membership. A copy of the model initial secrecy agreement can be accessed here.
Consortium activities
Consortium members already own many studies required for the dossiers. By using all REACH Regulation options (e.g. jointly-funded testing, grouping, read-across, data waiving, Joint Submission), each consortium aims to prepare its registration dossier in the most cost- and resource-effective way.
As a cost-effective alternative to consortium membership, each consortium is offering other interested SIEF members access to its completed Registration dossier, in a fair, transparent and non-discriminatory way, as part of a Joint Submission. The consortium will contact other SIEF members as soon as it has finalized its dossier. This will be in good time for the opportunity to be considered and decisions made by SIEF members to join the consortium’s Joint Submission, well before the 1 December 2010 deadline. As an alternative to consortium membership or to participation in the consortium’s Joint Submission, individual SIEF members may be interested in purchasing a consortium member´s studies. In such a case, the relevant owner of the study of interest should be contacted directly.
Consortium status reports
As part of the communications to members of SIEFs for the substances covered by the four consortia, regular reports on progress and status of the activities of each of the consortia will be published on this page.
Status report (22 July 2010):
Dossiers for all substances are close to completion.
Details of the joint submission plan, and the cost sharing mechanism have been sent by email to the SIEF members who previously expressed an interest.
SIEF members wishing to participate in the 2010 joint submission are requested to provide the appropriate lead registrants with completed SIEF agreements by the advised deadline, to receive all relevant information to conduct the registration in time.
Any potential registrant who wants to participate in the joint registration in 2010, but who did not receive the emails mentioned above, must contact the appropriate lead registrant immediately.
To ensure tokens can be issued in good time, deadlines have had to be set for receipt by the Lead Registrant/Consortia Secretariat of an original signed SIEF agreement and for payment of invoices, as shown in the following table. (Note that whilst signed agreements and payments of invoices can be received after the dates shown, issue of tokens in time for individual registrants to submit dossiers before 30 November 2010 cannot be guaranteed):
|
SIEF |
Signed SIEF agreement deadline |
Invoice payment deadline |
|
All relating to quinacridone pigments |
30 September 2010 |
29 October 2010 |
|
All relating to copper phthalocyanine pigments |
30 September 2010 |
29 October 2010 |
|
All relating to diarylide yellow pigments |
30 September 2010 |
29 October 2010 |
|
All relating to metal lake pigments |
1 August 2010 |
1 October 2010 |
|
PR 112 |
30 September 2010 |
29 October 2010 |
|
PV 23 |
30 September 2010 |
29 October 2010 |
|
PY 74 |
30 September 2010 |
29 October 2010 |
Contact the Organic Pigments consortia
If you require further information on the activities of the Organic Pigment REACH Consortia, in addition to issues that the consortia will be covering in the communications to SIEF members (see the final indent in the Status Report above), please contact the email addresses below, mentioning 'organic pigments' in the subject line.
For multi-substances consortia, please contact consortium@reachcentrum.eu
For single-substance consortia, please contact pa.consortia@clariant.com