1. SCIP Notification-Definition

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, as from 5 January 2021. The SCIP database ensures that the information on articles containing Candidate List substances is available throughout the whole lifecycle of products and materials, including at the waste stage. The information in the database is then made available to waste operators and consumers.

2. SCIP Notification-Purpose

The SCIP database aims to improve the knowledge of hazardous chemicals in articles and products throughout their whole lifecycle-including at the waste stage.

The increased transparency on hazardous chemicals in products brought by the SCIP database will help consumers to make better informed choices when buying products and provides information on how to best use and dispose of such products.

The SCIP database does not impose duties on waste operators. It makes additional data available to them to support the waste sector in improving current waste management practices and to foster the use of waste as a resource. For instance:

• it could support the segregation of waste containing Candidate List substances in collection, disassembling, and sorting waste operations;
• it can help identify materials that could be impacted by these substances in articles when they become waste, and;
• it could also contribute to innovation and emergence of new waste treatment technologies.

3. SCIP Notification-Body

The SCIP notification obligation for companies applies from January 2021. If the articles you produce, assemble, import or distribute contain SVHCs on ECHA's Candidate List in a concentration above 0.1% weight by weight you need to notify them to the SCIP database. If you are a retailer and only supply your articles to consumers, you don't need to notify to the SCIP database.

4. SCIP Notification-Contents

You need to submit the following information to ECHA:

1. Identification of your article;
2. The name, concentration range and location of the SVHC Candidate List Substances present in it; and
3. Other information that allows its safe use - notably information to ensure the article is properly managed once it becomes waste.

ECHA ensures the protection of sensitive information, for example, the links between actors in the same supply chain.

5. Simplified SCIP Notification (SSN)

Simplified SCIP Notification only applicable if the article/complex object received is the same as the one supplied. The distributor will submit a notification by referring to data submitted by his supplier. To be done via an alphanumeric identifier that the supplier receives after notification.

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