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Companies must notify ECHA about certain Substances of Very High Concern in articles not later than 1 June 2011

Producers and importers of articles (furniture, construction products, clothing etc) have a legal obligation to notify ECHA if any Substance of Very High Concern included in the Candidate List is present in their articles above the threshold of 0.1% weight by weight and if the quantity of such substance in those articles is over 1 tonne per producer/importer per year.

The Candidate List is a list of substances that have been officially identified as being of very high concern due to their hazardous properties in relation to the environment and/or human health. Companies will have to notify ECHA of the presence of such a substance in their articles not later than 6 months after the inclusion of such a substance in the Candidate List. For those substances included in the Candidate List by 1 December 2010, such as the first three batches of the list, the relevant notifications have to be submitted not later than 1 June 2011. For substances included in the Candidate List after 1 December 2010, Companies will have to notify ECHA not later than 6 months after the inclusion of the substance in the Candidate List, Such as the forth batches of the list, should be notified not later than 15 June 2011.

To support companies in complying with their obligations, ECHA has today updated REACH-IT to allow the submission of notifications for substances in articles. In order to explain the actual submission process a new Data Submission Manual for substances in articles has been developed. This manual is available on a new web page on the notification of substances in articles. Interested parties can find more information on this REACH process on ECHA web site. ECHA has published pre-filled substance datasets in IUCLID 5.3 format for all substances on the Candidate List. These datasets contain information on substance identification, classification and labeling, Companies have notification intention can download the database and complete relevant contents in IUCLID, then submit to ECHA.

http://echa.europa.eu/news/pr/201104/pr_11_08_notify_about_svhc_in_articles_june_ 20110413_en.asp

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