8. Glossary
Chemical safety assessment
Chemical safety assessment is the process of determining the risk posed by a substance and, as part of the exposure assessment, developing scenarios including risk management measures.
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.
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 affecting the stability of the substance or modifying its composition.
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Websites
The ECHA website (www.echa.europa.eu) brings together all the information you need to understand REACh, in particular authorization: procedures, lists of substances, technical guides, etc. (some in French). The access paths are as follows:
on the register of intentions of member states and the...
Regulations
Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACh), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 1488/94 as well as Council Directive 76/769/EEC and Commission...
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