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Two ECHA compliance campaigns have resulted in full data packages for more than 150 previously non-compliant REACH registration dossiers, as the agency sharpens its focus on persistent compliance issues.
One initiative, run from February until the end of May, targeted cases where no joint registration dossier had been submitted after a lead registrant change.
The campaign addressed 129 joint submissions, which covered 1,138 active registrations. Registrants completed the data package for 102 (80%) of those submissions, ECHA exclusively told Chemical Watch News & Insight.
Eleven of the 129 joint submissions (8%) that missed ECHA’s deadline are "working to resolve" the dossier issues, the agency said.
According to ECHA, the missed deadlines were because the new lead registrant:
- submitted a dossier that failed the first completeness check and received a new update deadline;
- told the agency the lead role was being transferred to another registrant; and/or
- said they were reviewing the data before submission.
ECHA said it is contacting registrants "to understand whether further support is needed", and will monitor progress until the end of the year before deciding on any follow-up action.
Harmonised classification
A second campaign, which ran from April to June, focused on registration dossiers that had not been aligned with new harmonised classifications under the Classification, Labelling and Packaging Regulation.
It covered 28 registrations for 24 substances and led to 22 registration dossiers (80%) being updated in line with the appropriate harmonised classification, ECHA said.
The agency has referred the remaining six registrations to EU national enforcement authorities to pursue.
Recent actions
ECHA is seeking to increase REACH dossier compliance checks after last year’s slowdown while it works through programme backlogs.
Industry has also stepped up efforts to address dossier gaps. Last year, Cefic reported that companies participating in the trade body’s REACH registration dossier improvement action plan filed 949 lead registrant and individual submissions for evaluation during 2024, 73% of which required updates.
At the member state level, many European national authorities in May 2025 cautiously backed a European Commission plan to introduce a ten-year validity limit for REACH registration dossiers as a way to improve updates and tackle persistent non-compliance.