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WHAT IS SCIP?

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).

General objectives

Definitions

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WHAT SHOULD BE DONE?

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

What are the obligations?

What do you need to do?

PRODUCER DISTRIBUTOR ASSEMBLER RETAILER CONSUMERS WASTE OPERATOR

A CIRCULAR ECONOMY IN THE EU

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.

It also:

Aims to reduce hazardous substances in waste;
Encourage substitution of those substances with safer alternatives;
Contributes to a better circular economy by helping waste operators ensure that such substances are not present in recycled materials.

WHAT ARE THE OBLIGATIONS

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.

COMPLEX OBJECT

Complex object - An object made up of more than one article. In complex objects, several articles can be joined or assembled together in various manners.

Articles that are assembled or joined together remain articles, as long as they keep a special shape, surface or design.

Most components of a bicycle are articles, such as the saddle, the bicycle's frame tubes, and the tyre.

ARTICLE

An object which during production is given a special shape, surface or design which determines its function to a greater degree than its chemical composition.

SVHC

Substances of Very High Concern on the Candidate List

Substances with the following hazard properties may be identified as SVHCs:

Substances meeting the criteria for classification as carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic for reproduction (CMR) category 1A or 1B in accordance with the CLP Regulation.

Substances which are persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) or very persistent and very bioaccumulative (vPvB) according to REACH Annex XIII.

Substances on a case-by-case basis, that cause an equivalent level of concern as CMR or PBT/vPvB substances.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?

PRODUCER

DISTRIBUTOR

ASSEMBLER

You need to submit the following information to ECHA:

Identification of your article.

The name, concentration range and location of the Candidate List Substances present in it.

Other information that allows its safe use - notably information to ensure the article is properly managed once it becomes waste.

The information in the SCIP database is made publicly available, in particular to waste operators and consumers.

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

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?

If you are a retailer and only supply your articles to consumers, you don't need to notify to the SCIP database.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?

CONSUMERS

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.

WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO?

WASTE OPERATOR

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 material-based streams 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.

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