Registration must be completed before placing a substance on the EU market (manufacture in or import into the EU). There are two routes - consortium membership or Letter of Access. Letter of Access is the simpler route and allows a legal entity to become a member of the joint submission and benefit from access to the information submitted by the Lead Registrant / Boron Consortium on behalf of the consortium members. Consortium membership brings additional benefits. REACH registration is the responsibility of each Legal Entity.
Letters of Access for Boron and Phosphorus are available for purchase by all interested parties by application to Boron Consortium Services Limited.
There is a separate Letter of Access for Only Representatives. Letters of Access are available on a per legal entity basis – they can if needed cover more than one substance.
Fee structure and tonnage guidance
A review of the REACH Boron Consortium Letters of Access for Boron and Phosphorus and associated fee structure was conducted in 2018 (see explanatory document below). A further review is planned for 2025 (delayed due to ongoing technical work).
How to apply for a Letter of Access
If you intend to apply for a Letter of Access to either the Boron or the Phosphorus dossiers, please do so in good time – note that the tokens to join the Joint Submissions will not be issued until payment has been received in full. Our goal is to issue tokens within seven working days of receipt of payment.
Purchase of a Letter of Access from the REACH Boron Consortium will involve the following steps:
- submission of a completed Application Form
- submission of the completed and signed Letter of Access Agreement (see Agreement for details of deliverables)
- an invoice will be emailed by Boron Consortium Services Ltd. [BCSL] in PDF format (our target is to send the invoice within seven working days of receipt of application forms)
- following receipt of payment in full (i.e. free of all bank charges), BCSL will sign and return the Letter of Access document by email, together with the token[s] for the Joint Submission[s] in the ECHA REACH-IT system.
Next steps
Once you have received the signed Letter of Access and token[s] for the Joint Submission:
- join the Joint Submission with the token provided. Log into your REACH-IT account, enter the menu and locate the “Joint submission” section, then click on “Join Existing,” enter the joint submission name and token and follow the steps.
- co-registrants should then submit their own registration dossiers to ECHA.