On January 5th 2016, The Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/9 on joint submission of data and data-sharing in accordance with REACH was published. This new regulation came into force on January 26, 2016.
The new law may be found here: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0009