Chairman: Rob Garrett, Ames Goldsmith (United Kindom)
Co-Chairman: Hendrik Roth, Aurubis (Germany)
Silver metal, silver nitrate and disilver oxide have been successfully registered by the relevant Lead Registrants during the last week of October 2010. The three dossiers were updated in February 2012 in order to take account of the preliminary recommendations from ECHA following the evaluation of the testing proposals included in the dossiers. A following update is foreseen end 2012/early 2013 to further include the results of on-going research.
Although they were not subject to registration before 2018 silver carbonate and disilver sulphate were successfully registered in March 2012. The Lead Registrants submitted the classification(s), the Chemical Safety Report as well as the Guidance on Safe Use on behalf of all co-registrants.
Letters of Access are available for non-Consortium Members so they can refer to the Lead Registrant dossier as foreseen by the REACH Regulation (OSOR principle).
CLP notifications for the three first silver substances above were submitted as part of their REACH Registrations in 2010. Legal entities who are not registering these substances (at all or before 3 January 2011) and who place these substances on the EEA market are invited to agree with the classification(s) submitted through their REACH-IT accounts as required by the CLP regulation. CLP notifications for the two remaining silver substances and the three remaining silver halides (see inventory) were submitted through REACH-IT in December 2010. All CLP notifications were subsequently revised against the 2nd ATP to CLP in February-April 2012 and whereas classifications remained unchanged, M-factors were updated for some compounds.
The Registration Dossiers of the remaining silver halides are under preparation and should be submitted towards the end of 2012. Any new information becoming available is used to register these materials as well as to update the Registration Dossiers which have been submitted previously. Once all silver compounds in scope are registered, the Consortium will continue to monitor and validate the outcomes of any subsequent research programme and will proceed to the update of the Dossiers as needed.
In light of the recent developments on nanomaterials, a Nano Task Force has been set-up within the Consortium in order to explore the best approach to deliver a scientifically robust risk assessment of nanosilver under REACH. Recognised experts in environmental and human health toxicity have been engaged into this work in order to ensure a continuous peer review and validation of the on-going research work. Lessons gathered will be discussed on a larger Eurométaux platform and will be implemented, as the case may be, in other REACH projects involving nanomaterials.
In addition to preparing and following-up registrations, the Consortium will also support co-registrants during the Evaluation of the Silver dossier by The Netherlands in 2013. PMC views this as an opportunity to strengthen the already high quality of the dossier and possibly validate the overall dataset generated and compiled for silver under REACH.
Potential registrants are informed as regularly as possible on other activities and data needs of the Consortium by e-mail. As from April 2012, the Consortium will be using REACHCentrum’s SIEF communication tool to send notifications to all pre-registrants. Please make sure you regularly check the e-mail account you have provided with your contact details when pre-registering and becoming a member of each SIEF. If you change this e-mail address, pre-registrants are invited to send an updated .xml of the relevant SIEF(s) to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .
Silver inventory (see attached pdf)