Registration

The Right Way to Register

By spring 2008 the European Chemicals Agency is likely to have been set up in Helsinki, Finland. In the following months companies will be required to submit the preregistration. Afterward the registration will take place according to the delays. Well-functioning archives and data collections will then pay dividends because all existing data on the substance must be submitted with the registration. Given that very few firms keep all substances and data about them centrally, data collection alone is going to cost money at some companies. At the preregistration stage buying in data could make sense.

Decisions on which substances are to be registered should be made in best alreadyduring preregistration on the basis of what is known about anticipated direct and indirect costs and the possible cost reduction.
After SIEF data interchange at the latest, the company will have an overview of other registrees (potential consortium partners) and all existing information about the substance or substances.