CASI Institute Belgium
CaSi REACH Consortium
REACH is based on the principle of one substance, one registration. For this reason, when a manufacturer and/ or importer pre-registers a substance it becomes a participant in a SIEF (Substance Information Exchange Forum).
The SIEF includes all companies that pre-registered one and the same substance. The SIEF facilitates data sharing between Pre-Registrants, and ultimately, where possible, the joint submission of the technical dossier. The aim is to avoid unnecessary testing, or repetition of tests on vertebrate animals and to ease the financial burden on registrants.
REACH does not however provide for clear rules on how the information should be exchanged between the SIEF participants.
In anticipation of these tasks, many companies have decided to unite their resources to set up consortia which provide a formal forum to organise all activities related to the preparation of the REACH registration dossier.
The substance covered by the Consortium
The CASI INSTITUTE has been researching and developing the legal framework for a REACH Consortium that will generate the required dossiers and has also done technical groundwork to prepare for REACH.
The Consortium Technical Working Group has agreed on a research programme to generate the additional data needed for the assessment of the substances/preparations.
The product covered by the Consortium is:
Ferro-Silico-Calcium (in short CaSi)
The CaSi alloy covered by the consortium, produced in an electric arc furnace, must have the following composition:
Ca: 28 – 32 %
Si: 55 – 63 %
Al: < 2.5 %
C: 1 % max
Further precisions will be provided in the ID Card that has been established by the Consortium's Technical Working Group in order to prepare for the sameness discussions in the pre-SIEF.
Source: http://www.casi-institute.com/web/welcome%20to%20the%20casi%20consortium%20pages/1011306087/list1186151299/f1.html
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