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REACH Glossary
A list of REACH-related terms and abbreviations.
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Article
An object which during production is given a special shape, surface or design which determines its function to a greater degree than does its chemical composition. (Article 3.3)
Authorisation
The system whereby restrictions are made on the placing on the market of substances of very high concern as identified by Annex XIV of REACH. (Title VII)
C&L
Classification and Labelling
CA
Competent Authority
CMR
Carcinogen, Mutagen, Reproductive toxin
CSA
Chemical Safety Assessment
CSR
Chemical Safety Report
Distributor
Any natural or legal person established within the Community, including a retailer, who only stores and places on the market a substance, on its own or in a preparation, for third parties. (Article 3.14)
DNEL
Derived No-Effect Level
Downstream User
Any natural or legal person established within the Community, other than the manufacturer or the importer, who uses a substance, either on its own or in a preparation, in the course of his industrial or professional activities. A distributor or a consumer is not a downstream user.
DU
Downstream User
ECHA
European Chemicals Agency
EINECS
European Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances
ELINCS
European List of Notified Chemical Substances
ES
Exposure Scenario
ESDS or extSDS
Extended Safety Data Sheet (with Exposure Annex)
EUSES
European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances
Evaluation
Within the REACH regulation, the term evaluation is used in relation to several key processes in the registration process, including evaluation of testing proposals for further testing of a substance; examination of technical dossiers submitted for substance registration; evaluation of a substance by a Member State; evaluation of an intermediate by a Member State.
Exposure Scenario
The set of conditions, including operational conditions and risk management measures, that describe how the substance is manufactured or used during its life-cycle and how the manufacturer or importer controls, or recommends downstream users to control, exposures of humans and the environment. (Article 3.27)
GHS
Globally Harmonised System of Classification and labelling of Chemicals
GLP
Good Laboratory Practice
Importer
Any natural or legal person established within the Community who is responsible for import. (Article 3.11)
Intermediate
A substance that is manufactured for and consumed in or used for chemical processing in order to be transformed into another substance. (Article 3.15)
IUCLID
International Uniform Chemical Information Database
LOAEL
Lowest-Observed-Adverse-Effect Level
Manufacturer
Any natural or legal person established within the Community who manufactures a substance within the Community. (Article 3.9)
Manufacturing
Production or extraction of substances in the natural state. (Article 3.8)
M/I
Manufacturer/Importer
MS
Member State
NOAEL
No Observed Adverse Effect Level
NLP
No Longer Polymer
Notification
The submission of specific information to the Agency in accordance with a legislative requirement, including notification of a substance in an article; notification of classification and labelling; notification of substances for the purposes of product and process orientated research and development; notification of restart of use by downstream user.
Only Representative
A natural or legal person established outside the Community who manufactures a substance on its own, in preparations or in articles, formulates a preparation or produces an articles imported into the Community may by mutual agreement appoint a natural or legal person established in the Community to fulfil, as his only representative, the obligations on importers regarding the registration of substances. The representative shall also comply with all other obligations of importers under the Regulation. (Article 8)
OR
Only Representative
OSOR
One Substance One Registration
PBT
Persistent, Bioaccumulative, Toxic
PEC
Predicted Environmental Concentration
Phase-in substance
A substance which meets at least one of the criteria in Article 3.20. Companies pre-registering their Phase-in Substances will be able to take advantage of the transitional provisions in Article 23.
PNEC
Predicted No-Effect Concentration
PPORD
Product and Process Oriented Research and Development
Preparation
A mixture or solution composed of two or more substances. (Article 3.2)
Pre-registration
Pre-registration allows companies registering products already on the market (phase-in-substances) to take advantage of transitional arrangements for several years until the appropriate registration deadline is reached.
Product and process orientated research and development (PPORD)
Any scientific development related to product development or the further development of a substance, on its own, in preparations or in articles in the course of which pilot plant or production trials are used to develop the production process and/or to test the fields of application of the substance. (Article 3.22)
QSAR
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship model
Registration
The submission to the Agency of a technical dossier and, if required, a chemical safety report for a substance being manufactured in or imported into the European Economic Area (EEA).
REACH
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals Regulation (EC) 1907/2006
Restriction
Any condition for or prohibition of the manufacture, use or placing on the market. (Article 3.31)
RIP
REACH Implementation project
RMM
Risk Management Measures
RSS
Robust Study Summary
SAR
Structure Activity Relationship
SDS
Safety Data Sheet
SEG
Stakeholder Expert Group
SIA
Substances in Articles
SIEF
Substance Information Exchange Forum
SME
Small or Medium Enterprise
Substance
A chemical element and its compounds in the natural state or obtained by any manufacturing process, including any additive necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity deriving from the process used, but excluding any solvent which may be separated without affecting the stability of the substance or changing its composition. (Article 3.1)
SVHC
Substance of Very High Concern
TGD
Technical Guidance Document
TPR
Third Party Representative
UDS
Unscheduled DNA Synthesis
Use
Any processing, formulation, consumption, storage, keeping, treatment, filling into containers, transfer from one container to another, mixing, production of an article or any other utilisation. (Article 3.24)
UVCB
(Substance of)Unknown or Variable Composition, Complex Reaction Products and Biological Materials
vPvB
Very Persistent, very Bioaccumulative
