Attention | EU SVHC adds 6 new candidate substances, and the control list is planned to increase to 248 items

On December 16th, 2024, the Committee of Member States (MSC) of ECHA decided to include the thirty-second batch of six evaluation substances (public comment time: August 30th, 2024-October 14th, 2024) in the list of candidate substances of SVHC, and it is planned to formally add them to the list of SVHC in January, 2025. By then, the list of substances controlled by SVHC will increase to 248.

The information of six new SVHC candidate substances is as follows:

The related laws and regulations of SVHC substance require:

REACH regulations stipulate that when the content of SVHC in articles is greater than 0.1%, information must be transmitted in the supply chain; When the content of SVHC in articles is more than 0.1% and the annual export volume is more than 1 ton, it must be notified to ECHA.

According to the EU Waste Framework Directive, from January 5, 2021, suppliers who put goods with SVHC content exceeding 0.1% into the EU market should submit the relevant information of the goods to ECHA through SCIP database.

Warm tips

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