Registration of Chemicals on a Discount

The EU REACH Regulation requires producers of substances and/or preparations to register them on the website of ECHA, the newly created European Chemicals Agency in Helsinki. In the lowest tonnage band (1-100 t per year) the registration fee amounts to € 1.600,00 per substance max. However, fees might quickly make up a large sum if several substances have to be registered.

For substances put on the EU market in a volume between 1 and 10t per year there is no such fee for the registration (see Art. 74(2) of REACH Regulation). There is an important condition for the fee reduction to zero: the registration dossier must include all information stipulated in Annex VII to REACH Regulation.