Priority substances data reporting

Details of the regulation are given including systematic data reporting and establishment of lists of priority substances, risk evaluation, list of existing substances produced or imported within the Community in quantities exceeding 1,000 tonnes per year, and list of substances exempt from the provisions of Articles 3 and 4. 

Bioavailability from Environmental Media. No information on the presence of 3,3 -dichloro-benzidine in foods was located in the available literature. The Canadian Government s Priority Substances List Assessment Report for 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine (Government of Canada 1993) also reports that no data on the levels of 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine in drinking water or foodstuffs were identified within either Canada or the United States. Because 3,3 -dichlorobenzidine has been found to bind strongly to soil constituents (Berry and Boyd 1985 Chung and Boyd 1987), Law (1995) concluded that it would also bind strongly to sedimentary material in the marine aquatic environment and thus may have limited bioavailability. 

The EPA prepares a biennial report on its list of waste minimization priority chemicals. This report summarizes the quantities of each chemical produced and the states in which the largest quantities of each chemical are produced, the major sources, the methods of disposal used, and other important data about the listed substances. The most recent biennial report, which covers the years from 1991 to 2001, was published in February 2004. 

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. 

The first and short-term application of the reporting template was made for the EU-wide collection of monitoring data lannched in 2007 for the revision of the first list of priority substances. 

Existing substances Reg. (EEC) No. 793/93 Reg. 1488/94 Data reporting Priority lists... 

An overview is provided of ongoing risk assessments on halogenated phosphate ester flame retardants in Europe. On the basis of the so-called second and fourth Priority lists on Existing Chemicals (Council Regulation No793/93) three chlorinated phosphate ester flame retardants are selected. The selection is based on their hazard profile, volume and use pattern. The three substances involved are TCPP, TDCP and TCEP (Antiblaze V6 from Albemarle is also involved but, due to confidentiality, is not discussed. An outline is provided from a European point of view on topics such as methodology of risk analyses, data-gaps and worst case approach, industry involvement, downstream participation and possible impact of final report on industry. 2 refs. 

Following receipt of data the Commission drew up priority lists of substances that, on the basis of that data, were thought to have the potential to pose a risk of harm to human health or the environment. By the publication of the EU White Paper in 2001, four lists, containing a total of 141 substances, had been adopted by the relevant technical committee (CEC, 2001). The progress of these risk assessments was very slow. Risk assessment of hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), for example, commenced in 1997 but was still not completed nine years later (ENDS, 2006). In 2006 around 16,700 tonnes of HBCD were produced every year for use as a flame retardant. It may have neurotoxic effects and interfere with the metabolism of thyroid hormone, but because risk assessment of it had not reached a conclusion there were no restrictions on its use. By 2006 final risk assessment reports were available for only about 70 substances (European Commission, 2006b) — less than 0.5 per cent of the 30,000 or so existing substances on the European market at quantities of above 1 tonne per annum. 

The information to be included on the form is intended to gather very preliminary exposure data to permit the Agency to assess testing priorities.i When promulgated in 1980, PAIR was intended by EPA to be the first of a series of progressively more detailed reporting rules under TSCA 8(a) to establish a comprehensive assessment of chemical substances."... 

As shown in Table 34.1, MTBE is tentatively ranked as 15th on Environment Canada s priority list of hazardous chemicals (Fingas et al., 1991). The primary objective of the hst was to determine the minimum number of hazardous substances that were most frequently spilled. The list was developed by a simple ranking of reported spill frequency supply volumes historical spill volumes and toxicity data, stability, accumulation, and persistence. 

Greenpeace says in the report, As a vital first step to this process, a dynamic list of hazardous chemicals should be established and include chemicals like NPEs and phthalates for priority action, and have a publicly available register of data on discharge emissions and losses of hazardous substances. ... 

An attempt was made to include references up to the end of 1980 as completely as possible and to evaluate critically the data. For substances whose lattice constants were determined several times by different authors, priority has been given to the papers which report a complete structure determination. In case of identical or verj similar results with comparable limits of accuracy the table presents the data of that determination in which the substance is characterized for the first time. 

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