{"id":8702,"date":"2026-07-03T09:58:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/?p=8702"},"modified":"2026-07-03T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:01:49","slug":"reduced-echa-fees-for-smes-new-mandatory-rules-starting-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/sector-chemical-compliance\/reduced-echa-fees-for-smes-new-mandatory-rules-starting-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduced ECHA fees for SMEs: New mandatory rules starting in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new Implementing <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/eur-lex.europa.eu\/legal-content\/IT\/ALL\/?uri=CELEX:32025R2067\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Regulation (EU) 2025\/2067<\/a><\/strong>, starting 5 February 2027, companies wishing to benefit from reduced ECHA fees must obtain<strong> official recognition of their SME status before<\/strong> submitting any fee-based dossier.<\/p>\n<p>The new regulation introduces a prior verification process that eliminates the option of self-certification at the time of dossier submission. Key points to note include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The request for SME status recognition must be submitted to ECHA at least <strong>two months before<\/strong> the planned dossier submission.<\/li>\n<li>ECHA will review the documentation and issue an official decision within <strong>two months<\/strong> of receiving the request.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced SME fees <strong>cannot be applied<\/strong> under any circumstances without prior formal recognition of the status.<\/li>\n<li>Once SME status has been recognized by ECHA, the recognition decision remains valid for <strong>three years.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ECHA has announced that <strong>further operational details<\/strong> and guidelines regarding the practical implementation of this new verification procedure will be published in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the new Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025\/2067, starting 5 February 2027, companies wishing to benefit from reduced ECHA fees must obtain official recognition of their SME status before submitting any fee-based dossier. The new regulation introduces a prior verification process that eliminates the option of self-certification at the time of dossier submission. Key points to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sector-chemical-compliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ceprasrl.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}