Sectors and products in the ECHA Chemical Universe

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has published a list of over 21 000 REACH registered substances mapped in its 'chemical universe'.  This mapping is a planning and monitoring tool that helps Member States and EU authorities to focus on substances of (potential) concern and identify appropriate regulatory actions, where needed. For companies and other stakeholders, publishing the mapping provides additional transparency on the work of authorities and the progress made in regulating chemicals.

Each substance in the chemical universe has been assigned by ECHA to a pool that indicates the regulatory actions in place, initiated, ongoing or under consideration. The five pools are:

1. Regulatory risk management ongoing: substances with confirmed hazards for human health and the environment.

2. Regulatory risk management under consideration: substances that are currently being considered for regulatory risk management.

3. Data generation: substances that require additional information to conclude whether further regulatory action is needed.

4. Currently no further actions proposed: substances for which authorities have not proposed further regulatory action at the moment.

5. Not yet assigned: substances currently registered under REACH but not yet assigned to any of the other pools.

From this page you can have access to nice reports, prepared for you by Chemycal, containing an overview of how substances used in specific sectors and products are distributed across the pools of the "chemical universe" of ECHA.