8. Glossary

Manufacturing

Production or extraction of substances in their natural state.

Market launch

The act of supplying a product or making it available to a third party, whether or not in return for payment. All imports are considered to have been placed on the market.

Chemical product

Generic term for both substances and mixtures of chemical substances. This term has no regulatory definition, as regulations refer specifically to substances and mixtures.

Substance

A chemical element and its compounds in their natural state or obtained by a manufacturing process, including any additive necessary to preserve its stability and any impurity resulting from the process used, but excluding any solvent which can be separated without...