Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2021 – 2023

The final version of the AJIT Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2023 can be downloaded below and summarizes the progress that has been made in the safe handling of Anhydrides. The presented consolidated data includes figures from 2021, 2022 and 2023 and presents the implementation progress until December 2023.

Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2020

The final version of the AJIT Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2020 can be downloaded below and allows you to read up on the progress that has been made in the safe handling of Anhydrides.

Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2019

The final version of the AJIT Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2019 can be downloaded below and allows you to read up on the progress that has been made in the safe handling of Anhydrides.

Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2018

The AJIT Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2018 can be downloaded below and allows you to read up on the progress that has been made in the safe handling of Anhydrides.

Voluntary Commitment Progress Report 2017

The Anhydrides Joint Industry Taskforce has produced its first Progress Report on the Voluntary Commitment that it initiated in 2016! It is downloadable below and allows you to read up on the progress that has been made in the safe handling of Anhydrides.

ECHA Excludes Anhydrides from 7th Prioritisation for Authorisation

On November 10th, 2016 ECHA has withdrawn the respiratory sensitizers, HHPA and MHHPA, from its latest recommendation for substances to be added to REACH Annex XIV (list of chemicals subject to an authorisation process). Though this withdrawal might be only temporary, it shows that the efforts of the industry to responsibly deal with chemical substances […]

Exposure and Medical Inventory Report

Part of the Anhydrides Joint Industry Taskforce work after the public consultation was to develop a harmonised measurement methodology and to measure exposure in each member company plant.  The first results of these measurements, combined with data obtained from a survey of company doctors on the occurrence of adverse health events related to the use […]

AJIT Public Consultation Report

In December 2015 the Anhydrides Joint Industry Taskforce was founded with a mission to collect any available information on the use of anhydrides for the then recently opened ECHA Public Consultation on the Draft Prioritisation for Authorisation List. An Industry Consultation Questionnaire was send out by AJIT to users of anhydrides to collect information on: […]

7th Draft Prioritisation for Authorisation

The next step in the authorisation procedure is for ECHA to propose to the European Commission which substances should be prioritised for inclusion into the authorisation list. On the 18th of November 2015 HHPA and MHHPA were included in the draft recommendation for inclusion in the authorisation list. This draft recommendation was open for public […]