Commercial Substances -> EINECS

In 1979 the sixth amendment to the dangerous substances directive (79/831/ EEC) introduced a notification system for new substances and made provision for the publication of an inventory of existing substances, the latter being those substances on the European market by 18 September 1981. The European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances (EINECS) was published in 1990 and lists 100,106 substances (SLIM, 1999). A decade later some 30,000 or so of these substances were thought to be marketed in volumes of above 1 tonne per year, these accounting for more than 99 per cent of the total volume of all substances on the EU market (CEC, 2001, p6). 

Existing chemicals are those that were on the EU market before 18 September 1981 and listed in EINECS (the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances). The Regulation requires industry to report data on existing substances, the Commission to prioritise substances for risk assessment and Member States to conduct risk assessments of those priority substances. Will be replaced by REACH. 

Since its original introduction, amendments have expanded and updated the provisions of the Directive. Procedures for notification of new substances were introduced with the 6th Amendment to the Directive in 1979. In order to define new substances , it was necessary to establish an inventory of chemicals then on the Community market. EINECS, the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances, was compiled as of 18th September 1981. New chemicals, notified within the European Community after that date, are added to the European List of Notified (New) Chemical Substances (ELINCS). 

Chemical Names, Abbreviations, Chemical Abstract Registry (CAS) and European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substance (EINECS) Numbers, Chemical Eormulations, and Molecular Weights for Phthalate Esters... 

The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) registry numbers for limestone, CaC03 and MgCOs are 1317-65-3, 471-34-1 and 546-93-0 respectively. The EINECS (European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances) reference for limestone is 207-439-9. 

EINECS (European Inventory of Existing Chemicals) means the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances. This inventory contains the definitive list of all substances deemed to be on the Community market on 18 September 1981. 

All substances which are not Hsted in EINECS [5-1] (European Inventory of foisting Commercial Substances) have to be notified in accordance with Substance Directive 67/548/EEC [5-2] to the competent authority of the member state of the European Community in which the substance is manufactured or in which the importer has been estabhshed 60 days before the first placing on the market. 

European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances (EINECS), Official Journal C146A, Vol. 33, 1990. 

EINECS European Inventory of Existing Commercial Substances... 

AH of the amyl alcohols are TSCA and EINECS (European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances) registered. 

The LD q for sodium bromide taken orally by rats is 3.5 g/kg body weight, and the TD q orally in rats is 720 mg/kg (8). RTECS Hsts data on reproductive effects in male and female rats. Sodium bromide is Hsted in the TSCA Inventory, the Canadian Domestic Substances Hst (DSL), the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EINECS), the Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances (ENCS), and the Korean Existing Chemicals Hst (ECL). It is not regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation. 

Poly(vinyl chloride) is Hsted on the TSCA inventory and the Canadian Domestic Substances List (DSL) as ethene, chloro-, homopolymer [9002-86-2]. Because polymers do not appear on the European Community Commercial Chemical Substances listing or EINECS, poly(vinyl chloride) is listed through its monomer, vinyl chloride [75-01-4]. In the United States, poly(vinyl chloride) is an EPA hazardous air pollutant under the Clean Air Act Section 112 (40 CER 61) and is covered under the New Jersey Community Right-to-Know Survey N.J. Environmental Hazardous Substances (EHS) List as "chloroethylene, polymer" with a reporting threshold of 225 kg (500 lb). 

EINECS The European inventory of existing commercial chemical substances... 

Existing substances are substances deemed to be on the EU Market between 1 January 1971 and 18 September 1981 and listed in EINECS, the European INventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EU 2006j, ECB 2006). The substances placed on the market for the first time after this target date are new (Section 2.4.1.5). 

EC (2002) European inventory of existing commercial chemical substances (EINECS). http //esis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/index. php PGM = ein. Accessed 29 Oct 2011... 

In Europe, 100,204 commercial chemical substances have been recognized and numbered under EINECS (European INventory of Existing Commercial chemical Substances) by the European Chemical Bureau (ECB) System. Another 4,381 new substances are classified under ELINCS Information System (European List of Notified Chemical Substances) since May 11, 1981. Among these. In Europe 1,230 chemical substances are officially identified as irritant or corrosive with Xi and C pictograms and risk sentences. 

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