Challenge Acceptation

The Challenge team has a start-up meeting to further detail the activity plan, division of tasks, an estimated budget and to start executing the challenge. Other aspects to be discussed are if and how ‘friends of the roadmap’ could be involved in the challenge, promotion and reflections on potential synergies with other challenges.

A1 – Creating section on website

Modify the RoC website to create a separate Substitution section A1b: Collaboration establishing a list of contacts to projects defined within M1/A1.

A2 – Collaboration with ECHA

Perform a collaboration with ECHA in relation to its substitution strategy. Update ECHA’s collection of alternatives identified by the applicants of REACH authorisation and promote the possibility for submitting to ECHA an expression of interest for a workshop on how the access to its data could be improved.

A3 – Reaching out to relevant actors

Reach out to institutional actors on substitution and make them friends of the RoC (e.g. ECHA, Swedish Substitution Centre, Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production, etc.).

A4 – Publishing examples

Feed the Substitution section with useful information on alternatives:

• Add examples of successful substitution in the section “solutions”;
• Add excerpts from or links to resources/guidance/databases on substitution.

A5 – Activity EU-week against Cancer

Organise an activity on substitution during the European Week Against Cancer (25-31 May) in 2021 and/or 2023.

A6 – Seminars on safer alternatives

Organise a seminar on safer alternatives in a specific sector in 2023 (possible collaboration with ECHA/EU-OSHA).

Challenge Completed

The Challenge team has a concluding meeting where future steps are discussed and the end or the way forward is decided.

M1 – Website section on Substitution

The Roadmap on Carcinogens’ website contains a prominent section on substitution.

M2 – Examples published

Examples of successful substitutions and excerpts from or links to webpages and databases with safer alternatives (e.g. Subsport-plus, Chemsec’s Market Place, ECHA’s substitution section), and a list of alternatives extracted from applications for REACH authorisations are included in this section.

M3 – Guidance disseminated

Guidance for companies on practical substitution of hazardous chemicals is disseminated, including how ‘regrettable substitution’ (i.e. substitution by equally harmful alternatives) can be avoided.

M4 – Actors listed as Friend

Important actors on substitution are listed as Friend of the RoC.

M5 – Activity EU-week Against Cancer

An activity on substitution takes place during the Association of European Cancer Leagues’ European Week Against Cancer in 2021 and/or in 2023.

D1 – Substitution Examples

D2 – Activity EU-week Against Cancer

D3 – Seminar on safer alternatives

Number of substitution examples on roadmaponcarcinogens.eu

Substitution page visitor statistics

Participation to RoC events on substitution