ECHA Updates SCIP Candidate List Package

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) releases a new SCIP Candidate List package to align with the inclusion of more substances on the Candidate List. This will help companies to create SCIP notifications that include the new substances.

The IUCLID reference substance approach is needed when providing information about Candidate List substances in your SCIP notifications. Although reference substances can be created in IUCLID, ECHA recommends the use of their pre-made SCIP package which for instance can then be imported to IUCLID.

Previously, the SCIP Candidate list was updated on July 2021. For SCIP notifications, the new candidate list reference substance package includes:

• Individual reference substance datasets
• A change log of the candidate list package
• Delta package reference substance datasets
• A list of reference substance

SCIP is the database for information on Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products) established under the Waste Framework Directive (WFD). Companies supplying articles containing substances of very high concern (SVHCs) on the Candidate List in a concentration above 0.1% weight by weight (w/w) on the EU market have to submit information on these articles to ECHA.

The Candidate List of substances of very high concern now contains 224 entries as one substance N-(hydroxymethyl)acrylamide (CAS No. 924-42-5) has been added on June 2022. Before this, the Candidate List of substances of very high concern was updated on January 2022 which consisted of total 223 (219+4) entries as four new substances were added:

• 6,6'-di-tert-butyl-2,2'-methylenedi-p-cresol (CAS No. 119-47-1)
• tris(2-methoxyethoxy)vinylsilane (1067-53-4)
• (±)-1,7,7-trimethyl-3-[(4-methylphenyl)methylene]bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-one covering any of the individual isomers and/or combinations thereof (4-MBC)
• S-(tricyclo(5.2.1.02,6)deca-3-en-8(or 9)-yl O-(isopropyl or isobutyl or 2-ethylhexyl) O-(isopropyl or isobutyl or 2-ethylhexyl) phosphorodithioate (255881-94-8).

Companies are responsible for managing the risks of these chemicals and must also give their customers and consumers enough information to use them safely as these can harm people or the environment.