ECHA Releases 2025 Annual Statistics on Chemical Evaluations

On February 27, 2026, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) published its annual evaluation statistics. The data shows that between 2009 and 2025, ECHA completed compliance checks for over 30% of chemical substances registered before 2019 with an annual tonnage exceeding 100 tonnes. This involved a cumulative review of 16,100 registration dossiers, covering 2,380 substances, which accounts for 23.5% of all submitted dossiers.

Work Achievements in 2025

I. Dossier Evaluation Progress

1. Compliance Check Implementation

Key inspection targets:

• High-level hazard endpoints for high-tonnage substances.
• Substances or groups of substances of potential concern.
• Companies that left joint submissions and submitted individual dossiers (13 dossiers inspected, covering 11 substances, with almost all found non-compliant).

2. Data Requirements and Focus Points 

ECHA requested significant hazard data to clarify concerns regarding:

• Human health hazards
• Environmental hazards
• Reproductive toxicity
• Mutagenicity

3. 2025 Dossier Evaluation Output

4. Decisions Adopted:

• Decisions related to compliance checks: 208
• Decisions on testing proposal examinations: 115
• Total: 323 decisions

II. Substance Evaluation Progress

In 2025, ECHA made progress on 43 substances: the Evaluating Member States initiated evaluation on 10 new substances; ECHA adopted 12 substance evaluation decisions, requesting further information for 18 substances; and the Evaluating Member States completed the follow-up evaluation for 7 substances. Additionally, the evaluation was concluded (conclusion documents published) for 14 substances: among these, it was recommended to consider further risk management measures for 12 substances, while the necessary measures were already in place (or no measures were needed) for 2 substances.

III. Further information requests & Follow-up

Regarding the mechanism for requesting further information, ECHA completed the follow-up evaluation for 241 substances in 2025. Notably, approximately 70% of companies had submitted the requested supplementary information to the Agency; the remaining 30% of cases were referred to Member States for enforcement action. After receiving supplementary data from companies, ECHA referred over 15% of the cases to the competent authorities of the Member States, recommending consideration of further risk management measures.

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