Since mid-September, the SCIP Dissemination Platform has been available to the public and already lists more than four million articles containing substances of very high concern (SVHC). All notifications submitted by companies to the SCIP database are included here.

According to the EU Commission, the aim of this platform is to enable consumers, waste disposal companies and political decision-makers in particular to find out which chemicals are contained in products. This is intended to improve transparency and the provision of safe and clean products in line with the European Green Deal – in particular the action plans for the circular economy and pollution prevention, as well as the Chemicals Strategy for Sustainability.

ECHA Executive Director Bjorn Hansen says: “The launch improves access to information on hazardous chemicals in articles on the EU market. It will help track products containing substances of very high concern through to waste disposal, supporting the goals of a circular economy. We encourage everyone to familiarize themselves with the database and make use of it.”

And Virginijus Sinkevičius, European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, added: “The launch of the database is a real milestone in creating transparency on chemicals of concern in products. This wealth of information will be of great value to everyone, especially consumers, waste managers and policy makers. It will improve the provision of safe and clean products and secondary materials, in line with the priorities for reuse and recycling set out in EU waste legislation. We thank all the companies that promptly submitted information to make the database work.”

Some 6,000 companies have already submitted their data to the SCIP database. The most frequently reported product categories in the database are machinery and its parts, measuring equipment and its parts, electronic equipment and its parts, vehicles and their parts, articles made of rubber and furniture. The most frequently reported substances of very high concern are: Lead (e.g. in ball bearings, batteries), lead monoxide (e.g. in lamps, vehicle parts), lead titanium trioxide (e.g. in electric stoves), silica, lead salt (e.g. in lead crystalware, automotive paints) and 1,6,7,8,9,14,15,16,17,17,18,18-dodecachloropentacyclo[12.2.1.16,9.02,13.05,10]octadeca-7,15- diene, commonly referred to as “Dechloran PlusTM” (e.g., in paints, adhesives).