Tender Specifications - ECHA - Europa

The REACH Regulation 4 sets out as one of its aims to improve the protection of human health and
the environment through the better and earlier identification of the intrinsic properties of chemical
substances enabling them to be adequately controlled during their manufacture and use. The main
mechanism established in REACH to meet this aim is the registration requirement. Manufacturers
and importers are required to gather information on the properties of their substances and to
register the information to the Agency.
The Agency acts as the central point in the REACH system: its role is to manage the databases
necessary to operate the system, co-ordinate the in-depth evaluation of suspicious chemicals, and
run a public database in which the general public can find hazard information. In this context, the
Agency develops, in cooperation with its major stakeholders (chemical industry, Member State
competent authorities, enforcement authorities, etc.) a number of IT systems which underpins the
requirements of the REACH regulation. Examples of these systems are:
• REACH-IT 5 : the central IT system that provides support for REACH. It is used by
companies in registering substances, by the Agency and Member States in evaluating
dossiers and to help public in accessing information on chemicals.
• IUCLID 6 : the IT system that is used by companies to store information on chemicals and to
prepare dossiers for submission to ECHA through the REACH-IT system.
• RIPE 7 : the IT application that allows inspectors in Member States to access relevant data
from REACH-IT, so that they can enforce the obligations of REACH, for example to check if
a company has indeed registered a substance.
• CHESAR 8 : It is an IT tool to support industry in preparing their Chemical Safety
Assessment/Report which is to be submitted as part of their registration dossiers. It also
support the generation of exposure scenarios to be annexed to Safety Data Sheet.
• ODYSSEY 9 : It is a system supporting ECHA in dossier evaluation by providing efficient
instructions, consistency and reporting tools for the assessment tasks carried out by the
scientific officers.
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At the time of preparation of this document the ECHA Multi-Annual Work Programme was available at the ECHA
web site through this link
http://echa.europa.eu/doc/work_programme/2012_2014/multi_annual_wp_2012-2014.pdf
However, during the period between the publication of this document and the deadline for the submission of offers, it is
possible that the ECHA web site is updated with a new look and structure. On the updated ECHA web site, the ECHA
Multi-annual Work Programme is foreseen to be located in section “Document Library”.
4 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2007:136:0003:0280:en:PDF
5 http://echa.europa.eu/reachit_en.asp
6 http://iuclid.eu/
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At the time of preparation of this document, information related to RIPE was available at the ECHA web site through
the following links
Link 1: http://echa.europa.eu/news/pr/201106/pr_11_18_ripe_20110628_en.asp
Link 2: http://echa.europa.eu/doc/press/newsletter/echa_newsletter_2011_5.pdf
However, during the period between the publication of this document and the deadline for the submission of offers, it is
possible that the ECHA web site is updated with a new look and structure. At the time of drafting this document, it was
not decided where the information in Link 1 will be located on the new ECHA web site. If the ECHA web site is
updated and a tenderer wants to be informed about the exact location of this information, the tenderer can contact the
Agency using the contact details provided in section 1.6.
The information in Link 2 is foreseen to be located in section “Document Library” of the updated ECHA web site.
8 http://chesar.echa.europa.eu/document
9 At the time of preparation of this document, information related to ODYSSEY was available at the ECHA web site
through the following links
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