Recently, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade (Minpromtorg) announced that the deadline of the country’s existing chemical inventory notification, which was previously scheduled to end on May 1 this year, will be postponed to August 1, 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak [1].
Earlier on November 11, 2019, the Minpromtorg started to collect existing substance nominations. This was part of the moves to facilitate the upcoming implementation of the Technical Regulation of Eurasian Economic Union on Safety of Chemical Products No. 41 (TR EAEU 041/2017) [2], a.k.a. EURASIA REACH.
EURASIA REACH applies to five Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) countries: Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. It was adopted on March 3, 2017 and will enter into force on June 1, 2021 if all the five member states reach an agreement on the second-level legislations.
The other member states are expected to develop their own inventory of existing chemicals as well. The inventories will together form a common one for the EAEU. After TR EAEU 041/2017 takes effect, all chemical substances that are not listed on the inventory will be considered as new substances and subject to complicated notification requirements before they can be placed on the EAEU market.
