Name of the scheme: Notification of new substances according to "European Union Council Directive 92/32/EEC amending for the seventh time Directive 67/548/EEC on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions relating to the classification, packaging and labelling of dangerous substances."
Language(s) which can be used for notification/registration: Letter introducing notification-language of region where notifier is established
Year when the scheme was established: 1982
Year when the scheme was last modified: 1993, 1998 (fees)
2-1 Contact in the government
Fréderique ISTACE Commission of Dangerous Products Organisation Scientific Institute Public Health Address: 14, Rue J. Wytsmanstraat - 1050 Brussels Telephone: 32 2 642.5099 Fax: 32 2 642.5224 E-mail: f.Istace@iph.fgov.be Type of enquiry that can be handled Toxicology: general information on legislation and procedures; testing programmes, classification and labelling, scientific and technical problems, risk assessment
Peter SMET Commission of Dangerous Products Organisation Scientific Institute Public Health Address: 14, Rue J. Wytsmanstraat - 1050 Brussels Telephone: 32 2 642.5100 Fax: 32 2 642.5224 E-mail: Peter.Smet@iph.fgov.be Type of enquiry that can be handled Ecotoxicology: general information on legislation and procedures; testing programmes, classification and labelling, scientific and technical problems, risk assessment
2-2 Contact in chemical industry association
Dimitri Pevenage Environment, Safety and Product-policy Organisation FeDiChem-Federation of the Belgian Chemicals Industries Address: 49, Square Marie-Louise - 1000 Brussels Telephone: 32 2 238.9755 Fax: 32 2 238.9941 E-mail: dpevenage@fedichem.be Type of enquiry that can be handled General information on legislation and procedures
3-1 Legislation and its explanatory note
Koninklijk Besluit van 13 november 1997 tot wijziging van het Koninklijk Besluit van 24 mei 1982 houdende reglementering van het in de handel brengen van stoffen die gevaarlijk kunnen zijn voor de mens of voor zijn leefmilieu. (B.S. van 26 maart 1998)
Notification de substances nouvelles aux termes de l'A.R. du 13 Novembre 1997, modifiant l'A.R. du 24 mai 1982 réglementant la mise sur le marché de substances pouvant être dangereuses pour l'homme ou son environnement (A.R. du 1998-03-26)
Purpose Enactment of Directive 92/32/EEC and 93/67/EEC into Belgian law. Intended audience Belgian industry and companies outside the EU with a headquarter or sole representant in Belgium. Test houses and consulting bureaus
Content: The legal requirements of Directive 92/32/EEC (Notification regulations, Classification and labelling regulations) and Risk Assessment regulations (93/67/EEC)
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Name/Division: Organisation Moniteur Belge/Belgisch staatsblad Address: Rue de Louvain 40-42/Leuvenseweg 40-42, B1000 Bruxelles/Brussel, Belgium Telephone: 32 2 552 22 11 Fax: 32 2 511 01 84
3-2 Guidance for putting together a notification
Name Guidance: note to those completing a summary notification dossier of a new chemical substance
Purpose: To help notifiers complete the summary form required.
Intended audience: Notifiers and test houses
Content: Notes and format for resumé of information relating to the full notification of a new substance
Language(s): English
Publication: In paper form and in electronic forms
Date of publication: 1997
Charge for the information: Free of charge
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Name: Els Boel Organisation: Commissie Gevaarlijke Producten- Commission des Produits Dangereux Address: Dienst Leefmilieu, Federaal Administrief Centrum, Vesaliusgebouw 1010 Brussel/Service de l'Environnement, Cité Administrative de l'Etat, Quartier Vésale 1010 Bruxelles Telephone: 32 2 210 4832 Fax: 32 2 210 4704 E-mail: els.boel@health.fgov.be
3-3 Guidance for conducting the assessment
Name: Technical Guidance document in support of commission directive 93/67/EEC on risk assessment for new notified substances and commission regulation (EC) N° 1488/94 on risk assessment for existing substances
Purpose: To help competent authorities to carry out the risk assessment on new notified and existing substances
Intended audience: Competent authorities carrying out the risk assessment on new notified and existing substances. It is also intended to be useful for notifiers of new substances and for those manufacturers and importers who are obliged under the provisions of Regulation 793/93 to submit all relevant information for the risk assessment and to fulfil any request for further information or testing as a consequence of a risk assessment. It should help them to understand how the risk assesments are conducted and how decisions on their conclusions/results are taken.
Content: All aspects of risk assessment. Testing strategies for substances. Risk assessment report format. Risk Assessment for human health. Environmental Risk Assessment. Use of (Q)SARs. Emission Scenario documents
Language(s): English
Publication: In paper form
Date of publication: 1996
Charge for the information: not free
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Name/Division: Librairie européenne/Europese Boekhandel Organisation: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities Address: Rue de la Loi 244/Wetstraat 244, B-1040 Bruxelles/Brussel Telephone: 32 2 295 26 39 Fax: 32 2 735 08 60
4.1 Inventory
Name: EINECS - ELINCS - EU New Chemicals Database-Annex I
Purpose: Inform public about substances on the european market and their hazard properties
Intended audience: Belgian industry, non-governmental organisations, consumers, controling organisations e.a.
Content:* EINECS - European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (OJ C 146A Vol 33, 15 june 1990) * ELINCS - European List of Notified Chemical Substances
Notification number, EC number, EC Classification and labelling proposal, IUPAC name, Tradename/public identifer * Annex I-List of Dangerous Substances EC number, EC Classification and labelling, limits for preparations
Type of chemicals included: Notified and/or assessed new chemicals and Existing chemicals
No. of chemicals included: about 110.000
Language(s): All official languages of the EC
Publication: In paper form/ Discette and CD-rom
Charge for the information: Not free
Frequency of publication or update: EINECS : closed inventory, ELINCS : yearly, ANNEX I: yearly
Last year of update: 1999 ? (ELINCS), 1998 (ANNEX I)
Contact for obtaining copy of information: Name/Division: Els Boel Organisation: Commission of Dangerous Substances/Commission des Produits Dangereux/ Commissie Gevaarlijke Producten Address: Service de l'Environnement, Cité Administrative de l'Etat, Quartier Vésale 1010 Bruxelles/ Dienst Leefmilieu, Administrief Centrum, Vesaliusgebouw 1010 Brussel Telephone: 32 2 210 4832 Fax: 32 2 210 4704 E-mail: els.boel@health.fgov.be
