{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-9/article-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-9/article-4.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2016/9",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/9 of 5 January 2016 on joint submission of data and data-sharing in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) (Text with EEA relevance)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2016-9",
  "path": "article/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Fairness and non-discrimination",
  "text": "1. Pursuant to Article 27(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, any registrant of a substance shall only be required to share the costs of information that such registrant is obliged to submit to the Agency to satisfy his registration requirements under that Regulation. This condition applies also to administrative costs.\n2. The cost-sharing model referred to in Article 2(1)(c) shall apply to all registrants of that substance, including the possibility of future registrants joining the data-sharing agreement at a later stage.\nThe cost-sharing model shall include for all registrants of a particular substance provisions for sharing any costs resulting from a potential substance evaluation decision.\nThe following factors shall also be considered in agreeing on a particular cost-sharing model: the number of potential registrants estimated to register for that substance; and the possibility of future additional information requirements for that substance, other than those resulting from a potential substance evaluation decision.\nIn the event that a cost-sharing model includes the possibility to cover the costs of future additional information requirements for that substance, other than those resulting from a potential substance evaluation decision, this possibility shall be justified and indicated separately from other costs in the data-sharing agreement.\nCompiling information for the purposes of establishing substance sameness should not be the subject of any cost sharing between previous registrants and potential registrants.\n3. Pursuant to Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006, if the participants to a data-sharing agreement cannot agree to such a cost-sharing model, each participant shall pay an equal share of the costs required for their participation. Reimbursement of part of such costs paid shall still occur as if a reimbursement mechanism has been agreed subject to the first subparagraph of paragraph 4.\n4. The reimbursement mechanism referred to in Article 2(1)(c) shall be envisaged in every cost-sharing model and shall include a method of proportional redistribution to each participant of their share of costs paid where a potential registrant joins that agreement in the future.\nThe reimbursement mechanism shall also take account of the following factors: the possibility of future additional registration requirements for that substance, other than those resulting from a potential substance evaluation decision; and the economic viability of certain reimbursements where the costs of reimbursement are higher than the amount to be reimbursed.\n5. Where a data-sharing agreement existed before 25 January 2016, parties to that agreement may, by unanimous consent, waive their obligation to include a reimbursement mechanism in their cost-sharing model. A waiver under Article 4(5) of the EU Implementing Regulation which is in effect immediately before IP completion day has effect on and after IP completion day as a waiver under this Article of this Regulation (and here “EU Implementing Regulation” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/9 as it has effect in EU law).\nA potential registrant who intends to participate in an existing data-sharing agreement shall not be bound by an existing waiver unless he provides his signed consent to it to the previous registrants and shall have the right to obtain the inclusion of a reimbursement mechanism in the cost-sharing model in accordance with this Regulation.\n6. Any registrant who has ceased his activities pursuant to paragraph 2 or 3 of Article 50 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 may still be required to share costs resulting from a substance evaluation decision in accordance with Article 50(4) of that Regulation.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 4(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 4(b); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(5) substituted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 4(c)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 4(5) inserted (31.12.2020) by The REACH etc. (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/758), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 para. 4(c)(ii) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1313, reg. 6(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/9/article/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:46:08.719909+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}