ECHA

The draft recommendation consists of an overview table describing the draft entries to be inserted in Annex XIV (this table is available here) and the substance specific background documents developed by ECHA (see table below for links to the background documents). These background documents provide information on the identity and SVHC properties of the recommended substances as well as on their manufacture, uses and alternatives.

Interested parties are invited to submit comments on the draft recommendation by 19 September 2012, in particular on uses which should be exempted from the authorisation requirement. Comments received will be taken into account by the Member State Committee for developing its opinion on the draft recommendation and by ECHA for finalising its recommendation. The comments received, unless confidential, and ECHA's responses to these comments will be published on the ECHA website together with the final recommendation.

For commenting, the forms provided in the table below must be used.

An outline of the general approach used to develop the draft recommendation is available below under "Related documents".

Note: The consultation is subject to data privacy rules available below under "Related links". In general, ECHA may publish all comments and information received on its website. However interested parties can also submit confidential information, which will only be made available to ECHA, including its Committees, the Member States' competent authorities and the Commission. In that case a specification must be given by the submitting party as to why the information submitted is considered confidential. Detailed instructions on how to submit confidential information is provided in the commenting form.