The Existing Chemicals Regulation

The EU Existing Chemicals Regulation (ECR) (390) applied to all EU manufacturers or importers of existing chemical substances listed in EINECS. Each manufacturer or importer had to report the administrative and technical information and the available data on hazardous properties for substances supplied at above 1000 tonnes per annum dining the period 23 March 1990 to 23 March 1994. Only administrative and technical information had to be reported for substances supplied at 10 to 1,000 tonnes per annum The information has been collated into a EU database, and anon-confidential version is available called the International Uniform Chemicals Information Database (a.4). 

Priority substances were selected, which are considered to be of particular concern to human health and/or the environment. The suppliers of these priority substances had to provide any missing studies to complete a EU notification Base Set (Table 1). A rapporteur Competent Authority evaluates the full review dossier on behalf of the EU. The final output is a risk assessment (see Section 14), with final recommendations on how to deal with the substance i.e., it may be of no concern, require risk reduction or restriction, or further data may be needed before a decision is made. 

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