Relevant Acronyms
| Acronym |
Description |
| CBI |
Confidential Business Information |
| CEFIC |
Euorpean Chemical Industry Body |
| CMR |
Carcinogenic, Mutagenic and/or Toxic to Reproduction |
| CSA |
Chemical Safety Assessment |
| CSR |
Chemical Safety Report |
| DRC |
Declaration of REACH Conformity |
| DU |
Downstream user (e.g. customers) |
| ECB |
European Chemicals Bureau (Ispra, Italy) |
| ECHA |
European Chemicals Agency (Helsinki, Finland) |
| EINECS |
EU Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances |
| ELINCS |
EU List of New Chemical Substances |
| ES |
Exposure Scenario |
| EU |
European Union comprised of 27 member states |
| IUCLID |
International Uniform Chemical Information Database |
| IUPAC |
International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry |
| M/I |
Manufacturer/Importer |
| NLP |
No Longer Polymer |
| ORR |
Only Representative Registration |
| PBT |
Persistent, Bioaccumulative & Toxic |
| P-I |
Phase in Substance |
| PPORD |
Product & Process Oriented Research & Development |
| QSAR |
Quantitative Structure Activity Relationship |
| REACH |
Registration, Evaluation and Authorization (and Restriction) of Chemicals |
| RIP |
REACH Implementation Project |
| RMM |
Risk Management Measures |
| SDS |
Safety Data Sheets |
| SEA |
Socio-Economic Assessment |
| SIEF |
Substance Information Exchange Forum |
| SME |
Small & Medium sized Enterprises |
| SVHC |
Substance of Very High Concern |
| SVT |
Substance Volume Tracking |
| TPA |
Tonne per Annum |
| UVCB |
Substance of Unknown or Variable composition, Complex reaction products or Biological materials |
| vPvB |
very Persistent & very Bioaccumulative |
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