The Tin Metal Consortium aims to facilitate data and cost sharing for the purposes of REACH. It is a voluntary consortium open to any operator and is not limited to members of ITRI. The full agreement provides conditions and costs of membership, scope of the work, roles of partners and issues related to confidentiality and competition law. It should be noted that neither the text of REACH nor the European Commission define consortium formation rules but industry is expected to ensure that any terms are compatible with competition law; for this reason it is considered essential to have a consortium agreement. Consortia terms are not related to the operation of the pre-registration SIEF (substance information exchange forum) determined by the REACH regulation.

The Tin Metal Consortium is concerned with tin metal only. Its aim is to obtain or generate as far as is practical the data set that will be required for registrants of tin metal at the highest REACH tonnage band i.e. >1000tpa by December 2010. Data required includes both ecological and human toxicological information as well as assessment of hazards related to the known uses of tin metal. The exact scope of required data cannot be specified until further information is available on, for example, the potential classification of tin.

Regular members of the Tin Metal Consortium (producers and importers) as of 31 March 2008 are;
AMC London, Malaysia Smelting Corporation BHD, Metallo Chimique, Minsur SA (represented by Wildshaw Ltd), Norddeutsche Affinerie AG, PT Koba Tin, PT Timah, Thailand Smelting and Refining Co Ltd, Wilhelm Grillo Handelsgesellschaft mbH, Yunnan Tin Co. Ltd (represented by Yuntinic Resources GmbH), Yuntinic Resources GmbH.

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