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Dossier Evaluation & examination of testing proposals

REACH requires EU companies manufacturing and importing chemicals to assess their substances and propose risk management measures. To achieve safe use this assessment needs to be documented in a registration dossier which companies need to prepare and submit to ECHA. See also Registration Maintenance

ECHA can examine any registration dossier to verify if the information submitted by registrants is compliant with the REACH legal requirements (i.e. available in the dossier or proposed in a testing proposal).

A: Compliance Check: The dossier evaluation process contributes to the generation of relevant data on chemicals and contributes to demonstrate that industry takes responsibility to ensure the safety of the substances they manufacture and import. More information on the compliance check is available here: https://echa.europa.eu/regulations/reach/evaluation/evaluation-procedure/phase-1 and https://echa.europa.eu/regulations/reach/evaluation/evaluation-procedure/phase-2 

B: Examination of Testing Proposals: Registrants must submit a testing proposal if they intend to perform a new test listed in Annexes IX and X to REACH

In 2019, ECHA and the European Commission published a REACH Evaluation Joint Action Plan to address the lack of compliance of the information in the registration dossiers. https://echa.europa.eu/-/echa-to-scrutinise-all-reach-registrations-by-2027 

In a nutshell:

For all registrations in the tonnage bands over 100 tonnes/year, ECHA will have screened by 2023 all registration dossiers submitted by the 2018 deadline and performed a compliance check for all substances where data gaps prevent from concluding whether the Substance is of concern or whether it is of low priority for further regulatory action.
ECHA will perform a similar action for the substances in the tonnage bands 1-100 tonnes/year by 2027
ECHA estimates that 20% of all registration dossiers in each tonnage band will be checked for compliance. Overall, this corresponds to 30% of all registered substances

A 2024 update can be found here: https://echa.europa.eu/en/-/echa-checked-over-20-of-reach-registration-dossiers-for-compliance-1 

Note: one can follow the progress of the evaluation through the entire process here: https://echa.europa.eu/overall-progress-in-evaluation 

The table provides a status of the dossiers that ECHA has started to evaluate and follow the progress through the evaluation process. It displays the type, scope and status of the assessment undertaken. The decision date and the non-confidential version of the decision are published shortly after the decision has been adopted.

Last page update: 4 August 2025