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The Inventory will serve multiple purposes:• It will be a tool for hazard communication and a source of basic information on classified substances for thegeneral and professional public of EU as well as non EU states;• It will reveal disagreement on the classification and labelling of the same substance, thus pointing to thepossibility of considering further discussion, evaluation needs or the need for harmonisation of a particularclassification and labelling of a substance;• It will promote transparency and provides companies with a starting point for agreeing on the self classification oftheir substances; and• in EU it will be also an important tool for hazard communication and risk management, e.g. when EU MemberState Competent Authorities assess the need for potential authorisations and restrictions of hazardous substancesunder REACH Regulation.4.4.2 What does the Classification & Labelling Inventory contain?The C&L Inventory will contain the identity of the substance, the reason why a classification has not been assignedin cases where a substance has been classified in some but not all hazard classes or differentiations, specificconcentration limits or M-factors (multiplying factors) and the labelling elements for the substance.European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) will also include the following information:• Whether there is a harmonised classification for a particular entry;• Whether an entry is a joint entry between registrants of the same substance;• Whether it is an agreed entry;• Whether the entry differs from another entry on the Inventory for the same substance.The inventory list will be made public on the ECHA’s website end of summer 2011!4.5 OTHER SOURCESInformation on the hazardous properties of substances can be sourced in databases which are accessible on theinternet and in scientific journals. One of the most useful source of information is European Chemicals Agency(ECHA) website:http://echa.europa.eu/classification/clp_guidance_en.aspThere you can find quite a number of major available data bases and databanks (some are free of charge, butothers require payment of a fee). A small selection of mentioned sources is following (note that they may notpresent all sources available; any mention of a data source does not imply endorsement of its content):EU information and data sources:• ESIS (European Chemical Substances Information System) on the website of the JRC Consumer ProductsSafety and Quality Unit website:http://ecb.jrc.it/esis/• EFSA (European Food Safety Authority, for active substances of plant protection products):http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_ScientificOpinionPublicationReport.htm• Each Member State in the European Union has a national helpdesk. Details can be found at:http://echa.europa.eu/help/nationalhelp_en.asp• The European Commission websites:http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/reach/ghs/index_en.htmhttp://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/ghs/index_en.htm• Joint Research Centrehttp://ecb.jrc.it/REACH/Non-EU sources:• ECHEM Portal from OECD:16
http://webnet3.oecd.org/echemportal/• RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances) available from the NIOSH (US National Institute ofOccupational Safety and Health) website:http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/rtecs/• USEPA (United States Environmental Protection Agency) website:http://www.epa.gov/• IRIS (Integrated Risk Information System) available from the USEPA website:http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/iris/index.cfm• OSHA (US Occupational Safety & Health Administration) website:http://www.osha.gov/• NICNAS (National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme - Australia) website:http://www.nicnas.gov.au/• TOXNET website which include databases such as Toxline and HSDB:http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/• IPCS (International Programme on Chemical Safety) INCHEM website:http://www.inchem.org/• Scientific literature: the PubMed portal from the US National Library of Medicine searches 100’s of relevantjournals, many of which are available free of charge.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/Many of the UN GHS criteria (by hazard class), in particular those relating to physical hazards, are alreadyimplemented through the UN Model Regulations and related legal instruments (ADR, RID, ADN, IMDG Code andICAO regulating the transport of dangerous goods. You can use a transport classification as one of your sourcesof information for the classification and labelling of your substance as far as it is not included in Annex VI toCLP/GHS Regulation. But before you use a transport classification, you should be aware of the following:• transport classifications do not include all of the GHS categories for physical, health and environmentalhazards, so the absence of a transport classification for your substance does not mean that you should not classifyit under CLP/GHS system. In relation to physical hazards, this means that you may have to test in order to providefor the data which are necessary for an unambiguous classification according to CLP/GHS system;• under transport legislation, sometimes special provisions are linked to the entries in the Dangerous GoodsList (ADR, part 3) which have to be met in order to be classified in the respective class for transport. In thesecases the classification for the purposes of supply and use might be different. Further to this, one substance evenmay have two different entries with two different classifications where one of the classifications is linked to one ormore special provisions; and• transport classification may be based on another set of information than is required now by CLP/GHSRegulation.4.5.1 EU Guidances on CLP (= EU GHS)http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/guidance_en.htm4.5.2 EU Guidance on application of the CLP (= EU GHS) criteriaOn the European Chemicals Agency 's (ECHA) website,http://guidance.echa.europa.eu/docs/guidance_document/clp_en.pdf , guidance documents are to help industryto comply with the rules of the EU CLP Regulation:• The Introductory Guidance on the CLP Regulation: describes basic obligations and procedures of the EUCLP Regulation• The Guidance on the Application of the CLP Criteria: provides general principles of classification andlabelling under the EU CLP Regulation as well as detailed guidance on the criteria for the classification andlabelling of substances and mixtures.• The Guidance on Labelling and Packaging in accordance with EU CLP Regulation: provides generalprinciples of labelling under the EU CLP Regulation 1272/200817
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