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.

More information

Please click here to find out regular reports on progress and status of the activities of each of the consortia.

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 Klaus.saitmacher@clariant.com