All EC Decisions for ADCR 12-year authorisations published
On Monday 27 January 2025, the European Commission’s implementing decisions for 18 ADCR decisions were published in the Official Journal (as summaries) and made available at the European Commission’s REACH Authorisation website.
In connection to this the ADCR Consortium have
updated the ADCR Communication ‘Summary of ADCR applications submitted in EU and GB and decisions status’ (version 11 February 2025) where all available REACH Authorisation numbers are provided as well as the decision date, the expiry date and link to the implementing decisions, Official Journal summary and the Exposure Scenarios found in the Chemical Safety Report (CSR).
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On 19 January 2026 Defra granted Decisions for the three initial applications (AFA059, AFA061 and AFA063) which we published as news on 3 February. The granted review period for these three applications is 12 years. The Decisions are available on Authorisation decisions: UK REACH - GOV.UK . The Defra Decision come with a series of conditions that users of chromates should be fulfilling and these measures will apply from the 19 August 2026. To support the sharing of these GB obligations the ADCR Service Team prepared Formal Communication Letters that were shared with the Authorisation Holders for disseminating to their downstream users. These ADCR formal Communication letters have now been added to ADCR Guidance and Support , the letters set out the Authorisation conditions and monitoring arrangements as well for existing stock and REACH Article 66 obligations. For the four review report applications AFA058, AFA060, AFA062 and AFA064, Defra is expecting to make their decisions later in March 2026. As these applications are all review reports the use can continue until Defra makes its decision. The ADCR Service Team will update guidance documents on the ADCR website to cover the obligations of the Defra ADCR Authorisation decisions. The guidance is intended for Downstream Users of soluble chromates in GB. ADCR will also hold a webinar later in spring 2026 (April/May) to present the UK decisions and conditions.