“Registration，Evaluation， Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals，化學品註冊、評估、許可和限制”，是歐盟對進入其市場的所有化學品進行預防性管理的法規。己於2008年6月1日正式實施。法規長達849頁，歷時7年才完成，被譽為歐盟史上最為複雜的法規，同時也是過去20年最為重要的一項法規。
All the exisiting, new chemical substances itself and which applied to every manufacture need to registrate basic information when the output in quantities of 1 tonne or more per year.Only registered substances are allowed to be manufactured or imported.
Each manufacturer or importer of a substance shall submit his registration dossier for the substance to the Agency, accompanied by a fee.But they should submit the information of the same substance jointly,that is”one subject,one registration”.As a consortium member he only has to pay one third of the registration fee.
The registration dossiers submitted to the Agency will be handled electronically to facilitate the management of the expected amount of registrations that will be submitted. The Agency assigns a registration number and a registration date to each registration dossier received and immediately communicates this information to the registrant.
Within 3 weeks of the registration date, the Agency performs an automated completeness check of the dossier to ascertain that all elements required for the registration are included. If the registration is incomplete, the Agency will inform the registrant within these 3 weeks from the registration date about which further information is needed and will set a deadline for completion of the dossier.
For phase-in substances, a considerable number of registrations are expected to arrive just before the deadlines for the registrations. Therefore, the Agency is given 3 months from each registration deadline to check the completeness of those registrations that have been submitted within 2 months of the deadlines. However, the Agency will have to check the completeness of registrations submitted more than 2 months before the deadlines, within 3 weeks of receipt.
The registrant needs to submit the requested missing information in an updated dossier to the Agency within the set deadline. The Agency then confirms the submission date of this information and makes a further completeness check within 3 weeks of receipt of the updated dossier.
If the registrant fails to complete his registration within the set deadline, the registration will be rejected by the Agency and the manufacturer or importer is not allowed to start or continue manufacture or import of the substance.
The Agency will forward the registration dossier, the registration number and date, and the result of the completeness check to the authorities of the Member States in which the manufacturers and importers are established to enable enforcement action, if necessary. Also the further information that is submitted for completion of the dossier will be forwarded to the competent authority together with the result of the second completeness check.
The first purpose is for authorities to evaluate the testing proposals made by industry to ensure the safety of their products and thereby ensuring that animal testing is kept to a minimum.
The second purpose is to check compliance with the requirements of the regulation.
The third purpose is to examine any suspicion of risks to human health and the environment arising from substances.
Evaluation provides a means for the authorities to require registrants, and in very limited cases downstream users, to provide further information.
There are two types of evaluation: dossier evaluation and substance evaluation:
Dossier evaluation is conducted by authorities to examine proposals for testing to ensure that unnecessary animal tests and costs are avoided, and to check the compliance of registration dossier with the registration requirements.
Substance evaluation is performed by authorities when there is a reason to suspect that a substance presents a risk to human health or the environment (e.g. because of its structural similarity to another substance). Therefore, all registration dossiers submitted for a substance are examined together and any other available information is taken into account.
由於分階段物質的實驗資料容易取得，故會造成同一時間裡許多潛在的註冊人準備註冊同一物質，為了方便同一物質的潛在註冊人共享資料，歐盟要求分階段物質進行預註冊，藉此機會了解同一物質有多少潛在註冊人準備註冊，並將同一物質的潛在註冊人組成物質信息交流論壇（Substance Information Exchange Forum）簡稱SIEF。
