The situation regarding Chromium Consortia is as follows:

There will be three families of products:

- Chrome Metal
A working group is currently being set up. The lead company is the French producer Delachaux.

- Chrome Chemicals
A working group has been formed to assemble the intrinsic toxicological data for a number of chromium chemicals (sodium dichromate, chromium trioxide, sodium chromate, potassium dichromate, chromium III oxide, basic chromium sulphate) and prepare this information in a format suitable for registration. Access to the results can be obtained after the work programme is completed (scheduled towards the end of 2008), subject to sharing the costs which have been incurred in undertaking the work. The contact person is Mr. Louis Wyness: louis.wyness@tsgeurope.com .

- Chrome Alloys: Ferrochromium and Ferrosilicochromium
A draft consortium agreement was prepared by the Belgian firm of lawyers Keller and Heckman LLP and distributed to Members and other interested parties at the beginning of May 2008. A REACH Session was held in Paris on May 16th and sections of the draft were discussed. A second draft is now under preparation and should be ready by the end of June. Hopefully this will be the final draft which will allow the launching of the Chrome Alloys Consortium.
Any company willing to receive the next draft should contact the Secretariat .
Potential Members of the Consortium should be reminded that the ICDA has recently commissioned several studies and testing programmes which will facilitate the preparation of the Chemical Safety Reports. Please refer to the ICDA REACH Update of November 2007.

Any enquiry should be sent to the ICDA Secretariat which will forward them to the relevant group.