1. ECHA
  2. Legislation
  3. REACH
  4. Evaluation
  5. Progress in evaluation
  6. Overall progress in evaluation

Progress in evaluation

Progress in evaluation

Article 54 of REACH requires ECHA to report on the progress made (over the previous year) in dossier and substance evaluation, by 28 February each year.

This reporting consists of numerical data on compliance checks, testing proposal examinations, follow-up assessments and substance evaluations carried out during the previous year.

Later in the year, ECHA also publishes its Integrated Regulatory Strategy report which provides an overview of the activities to improve chemical safety and their impact.

Overall progress from 2009 to 2023

As a result of compliance check, testing proposal examination and substance evaluation, since 2009, ECHA issued almost 4 200 decisions covering approximately 13 770 information requests on more than 2 700 substances. 

Evaluation progress, 2009-2023

Evaluation process Adopted decisions Information requests Information requests by area
Annex I
(incl. CSR, RSS, PBT)*		 Annex VI 
(incl. SID, C&L)*		 Physico-chemical Environment Human Health
Compliance check 2 381 9 959 431 617 307 4 352 4 252
Testing proposal examination 1 589 3 109 N/A N/A 168 962 1 979
Substance evaluation ** 200 709 261 22 49 165 212
TOTAL 4 170 13 777 692 639 524 5 479 6 443

* Annex I: General provisions for assessing substances and preparing chemical safety reports (CSR); Annex VI: Information requirements referred to in Article 10 (information to be submitted for general registration purposes); CSR: chemical safety report; RSS: robust study summary; PBT: persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic; SID: substance identification; C&L: classification and labelling.
** The substance evaluation process started in 2012.