Steel-related substance consortia and REACH contacts 31 - Eurofer

Steel-related Substance Consortia and REACH Contacts 

Steel Alloying Elements - Major 

31/03/2009 

Alloying 

Element 

Actors Contact Email 

Al* EAA1 / IAI2 Eirik Nordheim nordheim@eaa.be 

Co* 

International Cobalt 

Institute 

Paul Marsh pmarsh@thecdi.com 

Cr* ICDA3 Sean Edwards sedwards@xstrata.co.za 

Fe* 

Eurofer REACH 

Forum 

Danny Croon D.Croon@eurofer.be 

IPIA4 Chris Barrington ipia@pigiron.org.uk 

Mn* IMnI5 Keven Harlow reach@manganese.org 

Mo* 

IMOA6 Sandra Carey 

Frank Martin 

sandracarey@imoa.info 

frank.martin@btconnect.com 

Nb* CBMM Europe BV reach@cbmm.nl 

Ni* 

ENIA7 / Nickel 

Institute 

Frances Capon 

Jeroen Vanhecke 

capon@euronickel.org 

jvanhecke@euronickel.org 

P ? ? ? 

Pb* LDAI8 Andy Bush bush@ldaint.org 

S - - 

No immediate plans for 

consortium 

Si* 

EuroAlliages for ferrosilicon-calcium 

Nadia Vinck nadia.vinck@euroalliages.be 

Ti Eurometaux Secretariat www.reach-metals.eu 

V* The vanadium Astrid Voigt a.voigt@ebrc.de 

consortium 

info@vanadiumconsortium.com 

W* ITIA9 ITIA Secretariat 

info@itia.info 

* See Annex 

1 European Aluminium Association 

2 International Aluminium Institute 

3 International Chromium developmend Association 

4 International Pig Iron Association 

5 International Manganese Institue 

6 International Molybdenum Association 

7 European Nickel Industry Association 

8 Lead Development Association International 

9 International Tungsten Industry Association 

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Steel Alloying Elements - Minor 


Alloying 

Element 


As ? ? ? 

Borates* EBA10 Associate 

members of EBA: 

Bill Adams William.Adams@riotinto.com 

Helen Kean Helen.Kean@riotinto.com 

Roger Doome r.doome@ima-europe.eu 

B ? ? ? 

Be Brush Wellman Inc. www.brushwellman.com/ 

Bi* 

Eurometaux Secretariat www.reach-metals.eu 

Ca* 

EuroAlliages for 

ferro-silicon-calcium 

Nadia Vinck nadia.vinck@euroalliages.be 

Ce* 

Treibacher Industrie 

AG 

Beatriz Pozo 

Navas 

reach@treibacher.com 

Cu* ECI11 Katia Lacasse kla@eurocopper.org 

Hf ? ? ? 

La, Ac Eurometaux Secretariat www.reach-metals.eu 

Li ? ? ? 

Mischmetal Eurometaux Secretariat www.reach-metals.eu 

Rare Earth 

Metals* 

REC12 Dr. Torsten 

Räcker 

traecker@dr-knoellconsult.com 

Sb* IAOA13 Karine Van de 

Velde 

kvdv@iaoia.be 

Se* STDA 14 

Daniel T. Hisshion 

Philippe Van 

Maele 

dth@info.com.ph 

philippe.vanmaele@umicore.c 

om 

Ta ? ? ? 

Te* STDA 

Daniel T. Hisshion 

Philippe Van 

Maele 

dth@info.com.ph 

philippe.vanmaele@umicore.c 

om 

Y Eurometaux Secretariat www.reach-metals.eu 

Zr Euromeatux Secretariat www.reach-metals.eu 

* See Annex 

10 European Borates Association 

11 European Copper Institute 

12 Rare Earth Consortium 

13International Antimony Oxide Association 

14 Selenium-Tellurium Development Association 

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Alloying 

Element 

Steel Coating Elements - Metallic 


Al* EAA 15 / IAI 16 Eirik Nordheim nordheim@eaa.be 

Be Brush Wellman Inc. www.brushwellman.com 

Cd* IZA 17 Francoise Petit 

Christian Canoo 

fpetit@izaeurope.com 

ccanoo@iza.com 

www.reach-cadmium.eu 

Li ? ? ? 


Mg* MaREC18 Dr. Georg Reif g.reif@ecka-granules.com 

Pb* LDAI19 Andy Bush bush@idaint.org 

Sn* 

Tin Technology / 

ITRI20 Kay Nimmo kay.nimmo@itri.co.uk 

Zn* IZA Christian Canoo ccanoo@iza.com 

* See Annex 

15 European Aluminium Association 

16 International Aluminium Institute 

17 International Zinc Association 

18 Magnesium Consortium 

19 Lead Development Association International 

20 Internation Tin Research Institute 

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Inorganic Iron Salts/Compounds 


CEFIC has the intention to develop a consortium for inorganic coagulants (iron salts) and 

Eurofer members are welcome to join: 

Substances dealt by the Iron Salts Sub-Consortium 

EINECS CAS Substance names 

233-072-9 10028-22-5 Ferric sulfate 

Iron(III) sulphate 

Diiron (III) trisulphate 

233-899-5 10421-48-4 Ferric nitrate * 

Iron(III) nitrate 

235-649-0 12410-14-9 Ferric chloride sulfate 

Iron(III) chloridesulphate 

Ferric chlorosulfate 

231-753-5 7720-78-7 Ferrous Sulfate 

Iron (II) sulphate 

231-729-4 7705-08-0 Ferric chloride 

Iron(III)chloride 

Iron trichloride 

231-843-4 7758-94-3 Ferrous chloride 

Iron(II)chloride 

Iron dichloride 

And various hydrates of these salts. 

More information about the substances can be found in the two existing related OECD HPV 

dossiers, one on ferrous chloride (Iron dichloride), (SIAM 19, Berlin, GERMANY, 2004) and 

another on Iron salts. 

Fee: this information will be sent individually to the company that makes a request. 

Alain RENARD 

Technical Counsellor 

Cefic (European Chemical Industry Council) 

www.cefic.org 

Tel: +32 2 676 74 88 / Mobile: +32 479 99 40 45 

Fax: +32 2 676 73 47 

e-Mail: are@cefic.be 

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SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: SFF for almost all the Iron salts and 

expected Lead Registrant for these salts: KEMIRA. Contact person = Helena HUTTUNEN. 

e-mails related to the Aluminium and Iron salts REACH Consortium should be sent to the 

ReachCentrum email address of Alain Renard: are@reachcentrum.eu 

Slags 

Dr. Motz is dealing with the consortium for slags. It will be based on a contract which will be 

drafted by an experienced lawyer. The pre-contract has already been signed by several future 

members. The European consortium agreement will probably be ready by the end of December 

2008 (and available in English) and will be opened for all steel producers in Europe. 

The data gap analysis has started in August and will be finalised in December 2008. The FehS- 

Institue has given this work to a consultant coming from the chemical industry (Bayer Business 

Service, Leverkusen, Germany). At that stage, more will be known about the costs for the 

registration dossier. The idea is to combine as much as possible the different dossiers in order to 

reduce the amount of SIEFs and as such registration costs. So far, there are 4 pre-SIEF's for slags 

under the slag consortium. 

The first meeting of the European "Consortium Slags" will be held on 5 th February 2009 in 

Düsseldorf . An invitation to this consortium will be forwarded through the REACH-IT-Sysetm 

to all potential registrants by the SIEF-facilitator. The Eurofer secretariat will additionally 

forward the necessary on this to all its Clusters. 

Dr.-Ing. H. Motz EUROSLAG/FEHS 

Bliersheimer Str. 62 

D-47229 Duisburg 

Phone +49 (0)2065 / 9945-31 

E-Mail h.motz@fehs.de 

SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: 

2 6 6 -0 0 4 -1 S la g s , s te e lm a k in g T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) 

2 6 6 -0 0 2 -0 S la g s , b la s t fu rn a c e T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) 

2 6 6 -0 0 2 -0 S la g s , b la s t fu rn a c e T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) 

2 9 4 -4 0 9 -3 S la g s , s te e lm a k in g , c o n v e rte r T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) T h y s s e n K ru p p S te e l A G (D E ) 

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Coke oven by-products 


Some coke oven by-products are being handled by the Coal Chemicals Sector group (falling 

under CEFIC) and more specifically the REACH for Coal Chemicals (R4CC) and some others 

by a second consortium established by a polish company. 

Regarding R4CC: The REACH dossier preparation for more than 200 coal derived substances, 

1955 companies and more than 8000 pre-registrations is organised by REACH for Coal 

Chemicals (R4CC). Contact person is Dr. Winfried Boenigk from Rütgers Chemicals GmbH. A 

consortium agreement was already established. R4CC has already opened the preSIEF discussion 

and they have sent an e-mail with an invitation for joining the preSIEF. It is foreseen that the 

lead registrant of each substance consortium will be member of the executive committee, dealing 

with R4CC. The substance concentrated ammonia liquor is not covered by the R4CC consortia. 

Public access via www.R4CC.org or www.R4CC.eu . E-mail helpdesk: helpdesk@r4cc.org 

SIEF formation facilitators for coke-oven by-products are: 

Coal tar: Winfried Boenigk, RUETGERS Germany 

Light Oil: Joris Claes, RUETGERS Belgium 

Dr. Winfried Boenigk Ruetgers Chemicals GmbH 

Kekuléstraße 30 

D-44579 Castrop-Rauxel 

Phone +49 (0)2305-7 05 3 64 

E-Mail winfried.boenigk@ruetgers-chemicals.de 

In the specific case of Benzene, the registration is organized by Michael Augthun from Arsol 

Aromatics GmbH. Contact data: 

Arsol Aromatics GmbH: Uferstr. 105 45881 Gelsenkirchen 

Telephone number: 0209 /4090934 

Mobile phone: 0160 /7206744 

Fax number: 0209 /4090938 

E-Mail: augthun@arsol-aromatics.de 

Website: http://www.arsol-aromatics.de 

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Annex 

Aluminium 


The Aluminium Industry was the first of the metals sectors to form a Consortium. The European 

Aluminium Association (EAA), in cooperation with the International Aluminium Institute (IAI), 

is leading the discussion on the issue and is preparing the industry for the upcoming 

implementation of REACH. 

For information about the structure and activities of the consortium please, contact the Eurofer 

Secretariat or Eirik Nordheim ( nordheim@eaa.be) 

directly. 

Concerning the fees, this is based on yearly budgets and an equal share per member, without any 

commitment to this figure, and the estimated total cost per member over the budget period will 

be about 80 000 USD. In addition non members of EAA/IAI are charged a yearly additional fee 

of 18 000 USD. All members required to sign ”Consortium cost sharing agreement” and ”Nondisclosure 

agreement”. Fees for legal advice, consultants’ fees and administrative expenses 

connected with operating the Consortium will be charged to the Consortium and included in its 

annual budget. 

SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: RiotintoAlcan with assitance from 

the Aluminium REACH Consortium 

Antimony 

IAOIA (International Antimony Oxide Industry Association) has been expanded and given legal 

entity and it has now become i2a (International antimony association). i2a started in January 

2008. Full Membership is open to legal entities who are producers or importers of antimony 

compounds. Associate Membership is open to legal entities that do not produce antimony 

compounds, but are stakeholders who have a commercial interest in antimony compounds, such 

as distributors or customers of the Full Members. OR’s are NOT member of i2a, their client is. 

ORs can participate to meetings. Deadline for joining without a small extra late entrance fee was 

July 14 th . New members are still welcome. The late entrance fee goes up continuously, so the 

sooner a company joins, the less the one-time entrance fee will be. For becoming member of i2a, 

it is necessary to fill in and sign a request for admission and return it to Karine Van de Velde 

(kvdv@iaoia.be). A questionnaire will need to be filled in as well. If you wish to get the request 

for admission and the questionnaire please contact the Eurofer Secretariat or Karine Van de 

Velde directly. 

For antimony there is no separate REACH consortium. A company can join i2a and i2a look 

after EHS issues, including getting the REACH registration dossiers ready in time for their 

members. There is one budget for i2a. Members pay a fixed administrative cost of 5000 euro + a 

tonnage based fee + cost to cover the risk assessment costs. 

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So in order to calculate the potential membership fee for a company, it is necessary to know in 

which tonnage band the company would fall for i2a. 

The below tonnage bands are used: 

Class Annual tonnage Cost share key Membership Fee 

XXL >10000 30 5,000 € Fixed base fee 

XL 5000-10000 20 5,000 € Fixed base fee 

L 2000-4999 10 5,000 € Fixed base fee 

M 1000-1999 5 5,000 € Fixed base fee 

S 100-999 3 5,000 € Fixed base fee 

XS < 100 1 5,000 € Fixed base fee 

The following 13 Sb compounds are housed in i2a : antimony metal, diantimony trioxide, 

antimony trichloride, diantimony pentoxide, antimony triacetate, sodium antimonate, sodium 

hexahydroxoantimonate, diantimony tris(ethylene glycolate), antimony trisulfide, antimony 

pentachloride, antimony potassium tartrate, triphenyl antimony and antimony telluride. If a 

company is interested in more than one Sb compound or if it has different affiliates, it is 

necessary to add up all tonnages for all affiliates (per company) and that defines the annual 

tonnage and the class (per company). 

i2a currently has 32 full members worldwide and 2 associated members. 

Bylaws and an internal Agreement can be forwarded by Karine Van de Velde. 

SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: Campine NV is the SIEF facilitator 

and lead registrant for Sb metal. I2a has officially taken over (at the request of Campine) the 

tasks of the Sief facilitator from Campine. I2a is as well preparing the REACH dossier for the 

2010 deadline and I2a will hand it over to Campine for submission to ECHA on time. 

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Bismuth 


Eurometaux hosted a meeting in October 2008 to determine what action is being taken on 

Bismuth. It emerged that the Minor Metals Trade Association is not actively developing a 

consortium. Instead, 7 companies have expressed an interest in working together on Bismuth and 

this consortium will be lead by Sidech (Belgium). A meeting report is awaited from 

Eurometaux. 

Boron 

Rio Tinto Minerals (RTM) is a manufacturer and importer of borates such as boric acid and 

disodium tetraborates. Boron, the element, does not exist by itself in nature but associates with 

oxygen, and therefore, a REACH registration dossier shall not be submitted for 'boron'. However 

RTM shall be required to submit dossiers for its borate substances in order to comply with 

REACH. 

Rio Tinto Minerals is a member of IMA-Europe (Industrial Minerals Association) and their subgroup 

called the European Borates Association (EBA). EBA members have formed a consortia 

to submit dossiers for REACH for the main borate substances: 

• 233-139-2 (boric acid) 

• 215-125-8 (diboron trioxide) 

• 234-541-0 (disodium octaborate tetrahydrate) 

• 215-540-4 (disodium tetraborate) 

For further information it is also possible to contact the EBA Secretariat, Dr Roger Doome 

(email: r.doome@ima-europe.eu). 

Cadmium 

Cadmium Consortium is in parallel with the Zinc Consortium (www.reach-cadmium.eu). The 

registration of Cd and Cd compounds is lead by IZA-Europe, taking care of the organization and 

Secretariat function of both the Zn and the Cd Consortia. The Cd Consortium was launched on 

1 st July 2007. The first General Assembly of the Cd Consortium was scheduled back to back with 

the Zn Consortium General Assembly for 4 September 2007. 

Scope (e.g. substances): Pre-registration support, classification and registration dossier 

(evaluation of substance and authorisation currently out of the scope). 

• Metal subgroup: Cadmium metal (231-152-8) and alloys 

• Compounds subgroup: Cd-oxyde (215-146-2), Cd-Hydoxyde (244-168-5), Cd-Nitrate (233- 

710-6), Cd-Carbonate (298-586-8), Cd-Sulphide (215-147-8), Cd-sulpho-selenide (261-218-1), 

Cd-Zn-Sulphide (232-466-8), Cd-Telluride (215-149-9) 

• “Isolated Intermediates” subgroup: Cd-sulphate (233-331-6) 

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Membership profile: EU- and non EU- Manufacturers, importers, traders. Up to now, there are 

22 members (actually ~ 40 legal entities). 

For information about the Agreement text signed by the current Members, please contact the 

Eurofer secretariat or Christian Canoo ( ccanoo@iza.com) or Francoise Petit 

( petit@izaeurope.com) 

directly. 

Members shall bear the Consortium cost jointly, according to a set of cost sharing formulae that 

is shown in the next page. 

Collection of data from DU is on-going.The consortia is open for exchange of data with other 

consortia. 

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Cerium 


Treibacher Industrie AG has volunteered for the SIEF Formation Facilitator (SFF) role and has 

communicated ECHA its intentions to be Lead Registrant for Cerium (EINECS-No. 231-154-9). 

The questionnaire to facilitate the information exchange within the SIEF and to support with the 

compilation of the joint submission registration dossier has already been sent. Members of the 

consortium do not need to send any feedback. 

Chromium 

Chromium Consortia is divided in 3 families of products: 

Chrome Alloys 

Chrome Chemicals 

Chrome Metal 

Some operators (LSM and Delachaux) took the lead in initiating a collaboration and have 

finalized a draft agreement to form a Chrome Metal consortium. A preliminary Meeting with 

potential Members of this consortium will be held on 17th February 2009 in Brussels. The 

contact person is Mr. Jean François Chamaly: jfchamaly@delachaux.fr 

For further information, please, also contact Sean Edwards (sedwards@xstrata.co.za). 


The SIEF Formation Facilitator for 

Chromium metal (EC 231-157-5) is London & Scandinavian Metallurgical Co Limited (LSM) 

and the contact person is Martin Andrade. However, LSM is a founding member of the Cr Metal 

Consortium, and they are being assisted by the Cr Metal Consortium. Therefore, it is advisable to 

send any communication directly to Cyril Jacquet and cc. Martin Andrade and Jean-François 

Chamaly, the consortium chairman. 

Cobalt 

SIEF Formation Facilitator: 

OMG Kokkola Chemicals Oy (FI) 

Copper 

Introduction: a voluntary risk assessment for copper was presented to the European authorities 

by the copper industry under the leadership of the European Copper Institute in May 2005. It is 

expected that Member State approval of the final parts of this comprehensive dossier will take 

place in April 2008. Over 90% of the information necessary to complete the Chemical Safety 

Report and Hazard Classification requirements for copper under REACH will be covered by this 

dossier. 

ECI member companies have also been working, since 2006, on identifying an inventory of 

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intermediates, linked to the production of copper, which also require registration. 


ECI is acting as the secretariat for the REACH Consortium for Copper metal and the various 

"intermediates" that come out of the copper smelting and refining processes. At ECI, Katia 

Lacasse (kla@eurocopper.org) is the coordinator of the activities related to REACH and the 

Consortium. 

In the REACH home page of ECI, there are links to download among others the Consortium 

Agreement and fee calculations (see also in the next page of this document): 

http://www.eurocopper.org/copper/reach.html. A list of the substances covered by the 

Consortium is given in Appendix 2 of the Consortium Agreement. Generally speaking, the 

consortium covers primary and secondary copper metal, copper slags sold as a product, and a 

well defined series of byproducts (intermediates) produced during the smelting and refining 

process. 

Copper compounds are not in the scope of this Consortium. ECI however cooperates closely 

with the third party leading a separate consortium for copper compounds. This separate 

consortium for copper compounds is managed by Carol Mackie and Bardyke Chemicals: 

Carol Mackie -Regulatory Specialist RCL – Regulatory Compliance Limited 

Warwick Mill Business Village - Warwick Bridge (Carlisle CA4 8RR Cumbria) 

Tel: +44 (0) 1228 564524 (office) Email cmackie@regcs.co.uk 

Membership profile: any Potential registrant is eligible for membership if he manufactures or 

imports substances in EU or non-EU (themselves or their Only representative). Membership is 

company-based (only one affiliate for a group, affiliates of a group are considered members). Up 

to now there are 30 members (pending contacts with 10 companies). 

Contacts with other consortia for exchange of data: in particular, contacts with zinc and lead 

consortia: cross-check of intermediates. Others for exchange of data. 

Meetings: 

• Working Groups meetings on 3rd December (Cu intermediates, and Cu slags) 

• 4th December 2008(Cu metal, and Cu downstream uses) 

• General assembly: 24 February 2009 


Norddeutsche Affinerie AG (DE) 

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Iron 


Substance SFF Potential LR 


Elemental Iron IPIA Iron Platform secretariat ArcelorMittal (but commitment 

from BASF needed as co-lead 

registrant) 

Iron, Furnace IPIA Iron Platform secretariat ArcelorMittal 

Iron ore pellets IPIA Iron Platform secretariat Corus 

Iron sinter Riva group Corus 

Fe2O3 IPIA Iron Platform secretariat Lanxess 

Mill scale (in case of nonwaste) 

Lead 

Part 1 

AKF AlQuimia Knowledge 

Factory 

The Lead Development Association International (LDAI) is the leading organization in the lead 

industry dealing with the registration of lead and lead compounds. Further information can be 

found on the LDAI web pages. The relevant contact point within the lead industry is Dr Andy 

Bush (bush@ldaint.org). 

Fees: Consortium Members of the Lead REACH Consortium will make annual contributions 

comprising a fixed fee and a tonnage-based levy fee for each of the years 2008 – 2010 and in 

subsequent years such fee as shall be agreed to by two thirds of the General Assembly. 

The fixed fees levy fees and VRAL fees shall represent a Consortium Member’s Pro Rata Share 

requirement (other than any additional fees which may be set in accordance with this 

Agreement). The fixed fee levy fees and VRAL fees are given in part 2 of this Schedule. The 

levy rates shall be variable being prepared by the Steering Committee (to meet the requirements 

of the Budget) and approved by a two thirds majority of the General Assembly. The estimated 

levy rates are as set out in part 2 of this Schedule. 

The levy element of the annual contribution will be based on the tonnage of lead metal or the 

lead content of lead compounds, manufactured within or imported into the Community, during 

the previous calendar year. For the avoidance of doubt any reference above to lead content shall 

be deemed to include lead content of transported isolated intermediates but excepting lead 

content of lead compounds which are transported to sites within any Group of Companies in 

which circumstance such a levy shall be paid only once by the entity originally possessing such 

lead compound. For the purpose of calculating the levy element of a Member’s Pro Rata Share 

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each Consortium Member must declare its previous year’s manufacture/import tonnages in 

relation to each Group Substance no later than 31 March each year. 


The Consortium reserves the right to have an independent audit conducted of the tonnages 

declared by any legal entity and such legal entity shall provide all reasonable assistance to allow 

such audit to be conducted expeditiously and any Consortium Member who is found to have 

deliberately under-reported their tonnage shall be deemed to be in material breach for the 

purpose of clause 8 of this Agreement. 

The fixed fee element of a Consortium Member’s annual contribution to the Consortium 

becomes due on 1 January each year. The levy element becomes due on 1 April each year. If any 

payments are not received within 30 days from the date of an invoice then the Consortium 

Member shall be deemed in breach of this Agreement and shall be liable to pay interest on any 

outstanding sum at the rate stated in clause 8.2.2 of this Agreement. 

In addition to the annual fixed fee and levy fee, Consortium Members who did not contribute to 

the costs incurred in preparing the VRAL Report or did contribute to such costs but such 

contribution is an amount less than the VRAL Fee payable by the Consortium Member as stated 

in part 2 of this Schedule 8 then the Consortium Member shall pay the VRAL Fee after 

deducting any VRAL Fee contribution previously made by that Consortium Member in order to 

secure access to the REACH registration data which is based on the VRAL Report (“VRAL 

Fee”). This fee, which will be equivalent to 50% of the rate paid by the original VRAL 

funders/owners in acknowledgement of the tenet that only about half of the VRAL is of direct 

relevance to the REACH registration, will be redistributed among the original VRAL funders. 

The VRAL fee will be payable in three installments on 1 January 2008, 1 January 2009 and 1 

January 2010. It will be based on the average tonnage of lead or lead content of compounds 

manufactured or imported into the Community over the period 2004 – 2006. The contribution 

rates are given in Part 2 of this Schedule below. The VRAL Fees paid by any Party for the use of 

the VRAL Report shall be remitted to the VRAL Funders at the direction of the LDAI. 

Part 2 

Contribution rates for 2008 – 2010 

FIXED FEES 

Annual fixed fee (lead metal manufacturers or importers) €10,000 

Annual fixed fee (lead compound manufacturers or importers) €7,500 

For the avoidance of doubt any Member who is a producer or importer of lead metal and lead 

compound shall be required to pay the higher lead metal levy of €10,000 

LEVY FEES 

The Budget for the work of the Consortium is anticipated to be approximately €2,000,000 spread 

over three years. Assuming that 50 persons join the consortium, the levy rate would be €0.13 per 

tonne per year. 

VRAL FEES 

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For lead metal manufacturers and importers an entry fee of €1.20 per tonne of lead 

manufactured or imported into the Community, calculated as the average tonnage manufactured 

or imported over the period 2004 – 2006. This will be charged as follows: 

€0.40 per tonne, due on 1 January 2008 


€0.40** per tonne, due on 1 January 2010 

For lead oxide manufacturers and importers an entry fee of the higher of €5,000 or €0.679 per 

tonne of lead content of compounds manufactured or imported into the Community, calculated as 

the average tonnage manufactured or imported over the period 2004 – 2006. This will be charged 

as follows: 



€0.226** per tonne, due on 1 January 2010 

For lead stabiliser producers and importers an entry fee of the higher of €5,000 or €3.14 per 

tonne of lead content of compounds produced or imported into the Community, calculated as the 

average tonnage produced or imported over the period 2004 – 2006. This will be charged as 

follows: 




**Since entry fees will be redistributed amongst the original VRAL funders, this final 

installment of the entry fee will be adjusted downwards to ensure that the total entry fee 

comprises exactly 50% of the adjusted contribution rate of original VRAL funders. 

***The cost structure is related to full membership and apply to companies with REACH 

obligations as a manufacturer or importer. Some downstream users and user associations have 

expressed an interest in joining the Consortium as Associate Members. Membership terms and 

fees for Associate Members are agreed on a case by case basis. 

SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: The SIEF Formation Facilitator for 

lead metal is Berzelius Metall, Germany. However, the International Lead Association is 

currently coordinating the lead SIEF activities on their behalf. 

Magnesium 

In summer 2007, a small group of companies established a Consortium for the registration of 

Magnesium (name of the Consortium: "MaREC"). 

Scope of the Consortium: Magnesium ( EC number 231-104-6) 

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Minimum fee for consortium: Entrance fee 4.000€ + Membership fee 10.000€ (2008) + 

accrued cost (with calculation factor) 

Membership profile: 

• Regular Members: manufacturers, importers and/or Only Representatives who are 

subject to a registration requirement according to REACH 

• Associate Members: downstream users if they are able to 

contribute information to MaREC 

Number of members: 21 members (November 2008). 


An OR has to be appointed by a regular member established outside the EU. All ORs appointed 

by regular members have to be listed in Annex 3 of the consortium agreement. 

Technical work: Literature search finalized. Data gap analysis will be finished 01.2009. 

Collection of data from DU: Planned (starting in 2009). 

Only Lead registrant proposed within consortium. 

Contacts with other consortia for exchange of data: Contacts established with Al-, Si-, Mn- 

and Zn- consortia. 

Meetings: 18 March 2009 in Frankfurt General Assembly Meeting 

The relevant contact point for persons and companies interested in the Magnesium Consortium 

is Dr. Georg Reif (g.reif@ecka-granules.com). 

Moreover, the registration of some Mg-containing minerals is organized by Euromines. 

SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: Dr. Georg Reif intends to become 

SFF as he is already manager of the Mg consortium MaREC for 2 years now. However, SIEF 

formation has not started yet and this will happen in a near future. It was agreed within MaREC 

that one of their affiliates will become lead registrant. This also depends on the SIEF agreement. 

Manganese 

SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: The Mn-consortium secretariat is the 

SFF, working on behalf of the candidate Lead Registrant, BHP Billiton. 

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Molybdenum 


The International Molybdenum Association is taking the lead of the Molybdenum Consortium 

Formation. The main aim is to assist IMOA members in registering their substances in 

accordance with REACH legislation. 

The available relevant information about the Molybdenum Consortium is the following (for 

further information about this documents please, contact the Eurofer Secretariat or Sandra Carey 

( sandracarey@imoa.info) 

& Frank Martin ( frank.martin@btconnect.com) 

directly) 

: 

1 MoCon Introduction 

2 MoCon Substances Portfolio 

3 MoCon Illustration 

4 MoCon Agreements: 

MoCon Agreement 

MoCon License Agreement 

MoCon Non Disclosure Agreement 

MoCon Company Representative Sheet 

MoCon Bank Transfer Instructions 

If a company wish to join the Consortium, there is a minimum fee (US$ 15,000) that has to be 

paid as soon as possible, and a pdf of the signing sheets of the Consortium Agreement has to be 

sent. Afterwards, the signed originals have to be sent by post to IMOA, Rue Pere Eudore 

Devroye 245, B1150 Brussels, Belgium. 

With regard to the annual fees payable by members: 

- Membership is a four year financial commitment: 2007 - 2010 inclusive 

- The initial joining fee (that is the minimum annual fee) is now US15,000 (down from 

US$25,000). Note that this minimum fee will not increase. 

-The fee basis each year is determined by calculating the volume of each Members imports to 

the EU (lbs Mo-contained that they declared to MoCon for 2006) as a proportion of the total 

volume of Members 2006 imports to EU declared to MoCon, and applying that percentage to the 

annual budget approved for that year. So the annual fee payable will vary dependent on the total 

volume declared by Members and variations in the annual volumes of each member. 

- Your calculation of Mo imports into the EU is Lbs Mo-Contained (i.e. not product weight). 

- A volume of 1000 MT Mo-contained works out as a MoCon fee of US$35,500 (rounded to the 

nearest US$500). This is based on the 2007 membership fees where the levy was 1.61 USc/lb 

Mo-contained. 

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SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: The SIEF Lead Registrant for moly 

metal that will be shortly proposed is Plansee SE, Austria. For SIEF purposes the Moly 

Consortium Secretariat will act on their behalf within the SIEF. It has already been known at the 

Pre-SIEF stage that Plansee is willing to be Lead Registrant, but SIEF participants need to 

endorse that, which is expected to happen in early April. SFF is the Moly Consortium secretariat. 

Nickel 

The Nickel Consortium was officially launched in February 2007 and its activities are lead by 

the Nickel Institute and ENIA (European Nickel Industry Assosication). 

There are 3 Consortia following the substances involved: 

• Nickel Consortium RA substances covers Ni metal and the main Ni compounds such us 

Ni chloride, Ni nitrate, Ni sulphate (closed list) 

• Nickel Consortium Nickel inorganic compounds covers some non-RA substances: Ni 

acetate, Ni carbonate, Ni sulphamate, Ni fluoride, Ni oxide…(open list) 

• Nickel Consortium “Complex materials” covers Ferronickel as a special preparation and 

some intermediates, e.g.: Ni matte (open list) 

Additional substances may be included in the second and third group of substances upon request, 

evaluation and decision by the Steering Committee. It is not planned to cover Nickel organic 

compounds. 

Membership: Importers and EU or non-EU Manufacturers (as defined in REACH) can join the 

Consortium as Regular Members. The non-EU manufacturers can delegate their OR by signing a 

power of attorney. Downstream Users can be represented by their European Association 

(Associate Membership) to ensure a good communication for the preparation of the Registration 

dossier. Up to now there are 30 Regular members in total – pending contacts with 50 companies. 

Fee: As for the costs of membership, it is not feasible to give an off-the-shelf estimation, due to 

the quantity of cost drivers. Main cost drivers are the volume of Ni-content and the number of 

Members in the Consortium. Potential members are invited to contact the Secretariat, so that a 

detailed cost estimation can be made following the specific situation of the company. 

Pre-existence of RA: Yes for the following substances: nickel metal, nickel chloride, 

nickel sulphate, nickel dinitrate, nickel (hydroxy)carbonate. 

Collection of data from DU: Ongoing process: the MMQ was already sent to the Plating 

industry. Next steps: steel, alloys and catalyst manufacturers. 

Contacts with other consortia for exchange of data: 

• Fe, Co, Al: exchanges of effects data 

• Cr, Cd, Mn, Si, Fe, Mo: communication with common Dus 

Meetings: 

• Monitoring Study kick-off meeting: 20 October (Brussels) 

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• REACH WG: 22 October 2008 (Brussels) 

• REACH legal sub-group: 23 October 2008 (Brussels) 

• REACH ST: 3 November 2008 (conference call) 

• REACH WS on diffuse sources and monitoring data: 19 

• January 2009 (Antwerp) 

• REACH WG: 20 January 2009 (Antwerp) 

Contact for the Consortium is the Consortium Secretariat: France Capon 

(fcapon@euronickel.org) and Jeroen Vanhecke (jvanhecke@euronickel.org). 

The Nickel REACH Consortium’s website contains a lot of useful information: 

www.nickelconsortia.org 

SIEF Formation Facilitator: Norilsk Nickel Finland Oy (FI) 

Niobium 


CBMM Europe BV 

WTC H-tower 

Zuidplein 96 

1077 XV Amsterdam 

The Netherlands 

Email: reach@cbmm.nl 

Rare Earth Metals 


There is a Rare Earth Consortium (REC) (Mischmetal). This consortium is open to everybody. 

For further information, each company shall submit a written request for admittance as a NEW- 

CONS-MEMBER. Afterwards, each potenial NEW-CONS-MEMBER has to sign a 

confidentially undertaking prior to receiving detailed information. 

Contact details are as follows: 

Rare Earth Consortium Manager: Dr. Torsten Räcker 

Project Manager Toxicology / Metabolism / Residues 

Dr. Knoell Consult GmbH 

Marie-Curie Straße 8 

D-51377 Leverkusen 

Germany 

Tel.: +49 (0)214 / 20 65 8 - 250 

Fax: +49 (0)214 / 20 65 8 - 200 

E-Mail: traecker@dr-knoell-consult.com 

Internet: http://www.dr-knoell-consult.com 

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SIEF Formation Facilitator: Katharina Kumerschek from Treibacher Industrie AG is the SIEF 

Formation Facilitator for several Rare Earth Metals. 

Selenium and Tellurium 

Selenium-Tellurium Development Association (STDA) is in process of forming a Consortium in 

where interested parties including non-STDA members will be invited to join. For further 

information, please contact theSTDA President, Daniel T. Hisshion or the Chairman of the 

REACH Steering Committee, Philippe Van Maele. 


For Se (E 231-957-4), the SFF is Robert Jahn from Retorte GmbH. Retorte, subsidiary of 

Norddeutsche Affinerie, is a member of the REACH Se/Te Consortium. 

For Te (E 326-813-4), the SFF is Marc Suys from 5NPlus. 5NPlus is a member of the REACH 

Se/Te Consortium. 

Contacting all pre-sief members will be carried out by the Se/Te Consortium secretariat, as soon 

as said secretariat is appointed and operational (something it is foreseen for the second half of 

April). Any request to Robert Jahn and/or Marc Suys will hence be put "on hold" while they 

continue to prepare their secretariat. 

The consortium has not appointed lead registrants yet but this will occur in due time. 

Silicon and Calcium Silicon 

The registration of Silicon (Si) and FeSi alloys is lead by EuroAlliages, the Association of EU 

ferro-alloy producers. On the basis of a service agreement with the international CaSi Institute in 

formation, ferrosilicocalcium alloys (CaSi) will also be covered. 

"Si" consortium CaSi consortium 

1. General Information 

1.1. Membership 

The "Si" Consortium is in force. The founding 

General Assembly meeting was held on 11 

June 2008 in Brussels and the Steering 

Committee the same day where Euroalliages 

has been confirmed as the Secretariat of the 

Consortium. 

1. General Information 

1.1. Membership 

The CaSi Consortium is in force. The founding 

General Assembly meeting was held on 1 July 

2008 in Rio and the first technical working group 

the same day where the CaSi Institute has been 

confirmed as the Secretariat of the Consortium. 

The CaSi Institute has a service agreement with 

Euroalliages to perform the work. 

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Membership profile: EU producers, non-EUproducers, 

importers (focus on metallurgy and 

chemical industry. Agreement was reviewed to 

make possible participation of holding 

companies controlling directly/indirectly 

producers, importers etc. ORs are not accepted 

as members, can participate if designated by 

a member company. 

30 companies have joined the Consortium so 

far, representing: 

1.2. Scope 

* all the EEA producers FeSi and/or 

Silicon and Silica Fume 

* all the Silicones producers members 

* polycrystalline silicon producers 

* several traders 

* several non-EEA producers. 

The following materials are covered: 

Silicon Metal: 

EINECS n° 231-130-8 / CAS n°7440-21-3 

FeSi alloys: 

EINECS n° 234-671-8 / CAS n°12022-99-0 

FeSi alloys: 

EINECS n° 234-670-2 / CAS n°12022-95-6 

CAS n° 8049-17-0 

Silica Fume: 

EINECS n° 273-761 / CAS n°1 69012-64-2 

2. Costs and annual fee 

2.1. Principles 


Membership profile: Majority of non-EU 

producers. Agreement was reviewed to make 

possible participation of holding companies 

controlling directly/indirectly producers, 

importers etc. ORs are not accepted as members, 

can participate if designated by 

a member company. 

6 companies have joined the Consortium so far 

representing: 

1.2. Scope 

* the EEA producers 

* traders 

* several non-EEA producers. 

The following material is covered: 

CaSi alloys: 

EINECS n° 234-587-1 / CAS n°12013-55-7 

CaSi alloys: 

EINECS n° 234-588-7 / CAS n°12013-56-8 

The CaSi alloy covered by the consortium, 

produced in an electric arc furnace, must have the 

following composition: 

Ca: 28 – 32 % 

Si: 55 – 63 % 

Al: < 2.5 % 

C: 1 % max 

The members have decided to (pre-)register CaSi 

as multiconstituent substance (MCS) 

2. Costs and annual fee 

2.1. Principles 

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The objective of the Consortium is to help the 

members prepare the Registration dossier by 

sharing data and sharing the cost of acquiring 

the necessary new data in the most costeffective 

way. The Consortium Agreement 

establishes the conditions under which these 

data can be shared. 

2.2. Overall costs 

The costs related to the consortium are split 

into a fixed fee and a variable fee. The first 

year (2008), the entrance fee covers the fixed 

fee related to the administrative expenses of 

the consortium per company and the past 

expenses incurred by Euroalliages related to 

the REACH consortium, also per company. 

The entrance fee (2008) amounts to 14000 

Euro. This fixed fee will decrease to 5500 - 

7000 Euro the next years (only the 

administrative need then to be covered),the 

definite amount depending upon the number 

of participants. The yearly budget for 

administrative costs is around 300 000 Euro. 

The variable fee is related to the product (data/ 

assessment/testing) and depends upon the 

volume of the substance put on the market, 

and more precisely on the tonnage band (6 

bands defined above 1000 T). The budget for 

Silicon/Silica Fume and FeSi, for the scientific 

part is respectively around 980 000 Euro and 

around 680 000 Euro to achieve the 

registration requirements. Those figures are 

most presumably conservative. It is based on 

the current knowledge of risk assessment costs 

given by other metals (which have been 

classified). 

2.3. Fees for late entrants 

The Consortium Agreement determines in the 

attached Consortium Agreement [Chapter XI.3 

" Membership "] that 


The objective of the Consortium is to help the 

members prepare the Registration dossier by 

sharing data and sharing the cost of acquiring the 

necessary new data in the most cost-effective 

way. The Consortium Agreement establishes the 

conditions under which these data can be shared. 

2.2. Overall costs 

The costs related to the consortium are split into a 

fixed fee and a variable fee. The first year 

(2008), the entrance fee covers the fixed fee 

related to the administrative expenses of the 

consortium per company and the past expenses 

incurred by the CaSi Institute related to the 

REACH consortium, also per company. 

The companies will share the management 

costs and 50% of the data gathering costs 

equally (fixed fee), whilst the other 50% 

of the data gathering costs will be shared 

on the basis of the tonnages manufactured 

or imported in the EEA (variable fee). The 

draft 2008 - 2010 budget agreed by the 

Assembly establishes that this fixed fee 

per company will be 34.953 EUR in 2008 

and will grow to 35.833 EUR in 2010, this 

on the basis of the current membership. 

The variable fee, based on the tonnages, 

will share an assessment cost of 60.000 

EUR in 2008 (i.e. 50% of the 2008 

assessment costs). This amount will grow 

to 150.000 EUR the following two years. 

2.3. Fees for late entrants 

The Consortium Agreement determines in the 

attached Consortium Agreement [Chapter XI.3 " 

Membership "] that 

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" If a Member joins the Consortium after the 

1st May 2008, such Member shall pay, in 

addition to the fixed fee related to the 

administrative expenses of the Consortium 

and the variable fee covering product-relatedspecific 

costs for which it is liable, an 

"Advantage Compensation" calculated as a 

percentage of its total costs as follows: 

Members who join after 1st May 2008 but 

before 1st May 2009 10 % " 

This applies also to the entrance fee of 14 000 

Euro per member company and per product 

and which amounts now, and until 1st May 

2009, to 15 400 euro. The entrance fee covers 

the 2008 administration costs and the past 

expenses to establish the Consortium. 

2.4. Business confidentiality 

The variable fees the Consortium members 

will have to pay will be calculated and 

collected by a Trustee on the basis of the 

budget approved by the General Assembly and 

in accordance with the tonnages indicated to 

the Trustee. 

3. What is the registration process for new 

applicants to the “Si” Consortium? 

According to the provisions of the consortium 

agreement, any new application is subject to 

the approval of the Steering Committee. A 

short procedure will be provided for those 

ready to join. 

From an administrative point of view, an 

annex indicating the contact details of the 

company, of its representative and its 

signatories and the products concerned (1, 2 or 

the 3) has to be filled in, signed and send back 

to Euroalliages. The other annex, related to 

tonnages declaration is to be filled in and send 

at a later stage, once the instruction will be 


" If a Member joins the Consortium after the 1st 

July 2008, such Member shall pay, in addition to 

the fixed fee related to the administrative 

expenses of the Consortium and the variable fee 

covering product-related-specific costs for which 

it is liable, an "Advantage Compensation" 

calculated as a percentage of its total costs as 

follows: 

Members who join after 1st July 2008 but before 

1st July 2009 10 % " 

This applies also to the entrance fee of 34 950 

Euro per member company and which amounts 

now, and until 1st May 2009, to 38440 euro. The 

entrance fee covers the 2008 administration costs 

and the past expenses to establish the Consortium. 

2.4. Business confidentiality 

The variable fees the Consortium members will 

have to pay will be calculated and collected by 

the Secretariat on the basis of the budget 

approved by the General Assembly and in 

accordance with the tonnages indicated 

3. What is the registration process for new 

applicants to the CaSi Consortium? 

New applicants to the Consortium must, 

according to the provisions of the Consortium 

Agreement, submit their application to a 

unanimous decision of the Assembly. 

From an administrative point of view, an annex 

indicating the contact details of the company, of 

its representative and its signatories has to be 

filled in, signed and send back to the CaSi 

Institute. The other annex, related to tonnages 

declaration, is to be filled in - only once the 

application has been agreed upon by the 

Assembly! - and send back to the CaSi Institute. 

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given by the 2 nd Trustee. 

Technical work: The technical work is run by 

3 Technical Working Groups. First assessment 

studies are being performed by Nordic 

research institutes. 


Technical work: One Technical Working Group. 

Same Nordic research institutes 

perform the first assessment studies. 

Pre-existence of RA: No Pre-existence of RA: No 

Collection of data from DU: Ongoing Collection of data from DU: Ongoing 

Contacts with other consortia for exchange Contacts with other consortia for exchange of 

of data: Ongoing 

data: Ongoing 


Silicon: Ferroatlantica is the candidate lead registrant of the Silicon consortium. The SIEF 

facilitator is CIRS (Dublin-based company). Euroalliages will by-pass them to form the SIEF. 

Calcium: so far not know. 

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Tin 

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For companies that have an intention to register, it is not possible to estimate the cost of Regular 

Membership since it is based on individual tonnage. 

Up to now there are 11 Regular Members: 3 EU importers, 2 EU-based secondary 

manufacturers and 6 non-EU producers each registering via an Only Representative. 

Pre-existence of RA: No 

Meetings: April 2009, Spain. 

There will be a REACH Inorganic Tin Compound Consortium that is not still signed. Contact 

person: Kay Nimmo Kay.nimmo@itri.co.uk 


Metallo-Chimique NV (BE) 

Tungsten 

During the First half of 2007, a small group of companies established a consortium to assist the 

companies in jointly preparing for Registration of Tungsten and Tungst-compounds under the 

auspices of the International Tungsten Industry Association (ITIA). The deadline for joining the 

consortium from the start is set at 30 of November 2007 and further information on how 

interested companies can join the Tungsten Consortium can be found at the ITIA website. 


PLANSEE SE (BE) 

Vanadium 

The registration of Vanadium and its compounds is being organized by the Vanadium 

Consortium launched on 7 th March 2008. The Vanadium Consortium Agreement is already 

finalised and available for all interested parties under www.vanadiumconsortium.com. 

Substances: vanadium, ammonium trivanadium octaoxide, divanadium pentaoxide, divanadium 

trioxide, "slags, steelmaking, vanadium EC Def.: By-product from open-hearth steelmaking. 

Consists of oxides of calcium, iron, silicon and vanadium", lithium vanadium trioxide, vanadium 

oxide (V4O7) & (V6O13), vanadium nitride, oxalic acid (vanadium salt), ammonium sodium 

vanadium oxide, ammonium trioxovanadate, sodium metavanadate, vanadium carbide, vanadium 

dioxide, vanadium oxide sulphate, vanadium tetrachloride, vanadium trichloride oxide, 

oxobis(pentane-2,4-dionato-O,O')vanadium, potassium vanadium trioxide, sodium trivanadium 

octaoxide, tetraammonium disodium vanadate, tripotassium vanadium tetraoxide, vanadium 

trichloride, vanadium yttrium tetraoxide, divanadium trisulphate. 

Membership profile: Organisations and individuals involved in the vanadium business, 

which have a current or future interest in the European market. 8 members in November 2008. 

Minimum fee for consortium: 40.000,- Euros per year for members manufacturing and/or 

importing 1-10 t per annum of one or more of the relevant substance. 

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Pre-existence of RA: No. 

Collection of data from DU: Anticipated in the future. 

Proposed contact with Iron and Aluminum platform for exchanging of data. 

Meetings: Tentatively scheduled for January the 14th in 2009. 


SIEF Formation Facilitator and SIEF Lead Registrant: At the General Assembly meeting of 

the Vanadium Consortium in January 2009, the ‘not-yet VC member’ Duferco was selected as 

candidate lead registrant with Exstrata being the back-up in case Duferco will not join the VC. 

It was agreed to promote the lead registrants within the SIEF to become official lead registrants. 

It was furthermore agreed that the VC will coordinate the SIEF facilitation for the substances 

that are strictly due for registration in 2010 considered by the VC, including V. As Duferco has 

not joined the VC yet, it will most likely be the case that the VC will promote Exstrata as lead 

registrant. This is up for decision making at the next conference call of the VC on April 2nd , 

2009. 

The VC is currently in the process of modifying the IT tool that MoCon developed to be used 

for communication with the pre-SIEFers for the substances that are strictly due for registration in 

2010 considered by the VC, including V, and the VC will contact the pre-SIEFers shortly. 

Information can be obtain via: 

Astrid Voigt, Ph.D. 

EBRC Consulting GmbH 

Raffaelstr. 4, 30177 Hannover, Germany 

Phone: +49 (511) 898389 - 19 

Mobile: +49 172 448-9499 

Fax: +49 (511) 898389 - 10 

e-mail: a.voigt@ebrc.de 

e-mail: info@vanadiumconsortium.com 

Zinc 

The International Zinc Association (IZA) organized the formation of the Zinc Consortium. 

General information is available on www.reach-zinc.eu . The Consortium is opened and can be 

joined by all interested companies. 

Scope: Pre-registration support, classification and registration dossier. (evaluation of substance 

and authorisation currently out of the scope) 

• Metal subgroup: Zinc metal (231-175-3), 

• Compounds subgroup: Zn-Oxyde (215-222-5),Zn-Hydroxyde (243-814-3), Zn-Sulphate (231- 

793-3), Zn-Phosphate (231-944-3), Zn-Carbonate (257-467-0), Zn-Chloride (231-592-0) and 

Zn-NH4-chloride (238-687-6) 

• “Isolated Intermediates” subgroup: 273-776-3, 273-760-6, 293-314-4, 266-964-1, 293-309-7, 

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273-769-5, 273-723-4, 273-721-3, 305-449-9, 273-742-8, 273-824-3, 273-694-8, 273-707-7 

Membership: EU- and non EU- Manufacturers, importers, traders. Up to now, 62 Members 

(actually ~150 legal entities). 

Pre-existence of RA: Yes. 

Collection of data from DU: Ongoing. 

Open for exchange of data with other consortia. 

Meetings: General Assembly on April 1 st 2009. 

Members shall bear the Consortium cost jointly, according to a set of cost sharing formulae that 

can be found in the next page. 

For further information about the Agreement text signed by the current Members, please contact 

the Eurofer secretariat or Christian Canoo ( ccanoo@iza.com) directly. 


The preSief-facilitator candidate is B-lands. IZA offered to all pre-registrants (~3500), on behalf 

of the Zinc Consortium members (~98% of the EU-market) to assist the Lead Registrant for all 

communications and other secretarial functions in that Zinc-metal SIEF. 

The candidate Lead Registrant for Zinc metal, to be mandated by the Zn-Consortium, is 

NYRSTAR; the choice has to be confirmed in the next General Assembly that takes place in the 

week of the 30 th March 2009. 

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