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Helsinki, 10 June 2022 - ECHA has added one new substances to the Candidate List which has the toxicity of Carcinogenic & Mutagenic. From January 2021 onwards, they also have to notify ECHA under the Waste Framework Directive if their products contain substances of very high concern and the concentration exceeds 0.1%. This notification is submitted to ECHA’s SCIP database. To date, the SVHC list has been updated to 224 items.

Substances included in the Candidate List for authorisation on 10 June 2022 and their SVHC properties:

AGC Note: Companies may have legal obligations resulting from the inclusion of the substance in the CandidateList. These obligations may apply to the listed substance on its own, in mixtures or in articles. In particular, anysupplier of articles containing a Candidate List substance above a concentration of 0.1% (weight by weight) hascommunication obligations towards customers down the supply chain and consumers. 

In addition, importers andproducers of articles containing the substance have six months from the date of its inclusion in the Candidate List(19 January 2021) to notify ECHA.