In the context of the C&L inventory, manufacturers and importers must notify the classification for all substances placed on the market.

A notification to ECHA must be done when:

• Manufactured and/or imported substances are subject to registration according to the REACH Regulation;
• Substances are classified as hazardous;
• Mixtures containing a substance that is classified as hazardous and is present above the relevant concentration limit, which results in the classification of the mixture as hazardous;
• Articles containing a substance which is subject to registration under Article 7 of the REACH Regulation.

The notification must be done within one month of placing the substance on the market. For importers, the one month timespan is counted from the day when a substance, on its own or contained in a mixture, is physically introduced into the customs territory of the European Union.

Remark:

• There is no exemption for C&L notifications, thus even substances exempt under the REACH Regulation must be notified.
• If a manufacturer or an importer has already submitted a registration dossier under REACH for a substance he does not have to submit a separate C&L notification because the information requested for the notification have already been provided in the registration dossier.

The C&L notification can only be submitted electronically through the REACH-IT portal on the ECHA website.

There are three ways to submit a notification:

• Online by using REACH-IT, or
• Create a IUCLID dossier and then submit the notification via REACH-IT, or
• Submit a bulk notification, by uploading in REACH-IT a XML bulk file.

Companies may, under certain conditions, keep the IUPAC name of a substance confidential when notifying it to the C&L Inventory. The IUPAC name can be considered confidential and is therefore not published in the C&L inventory for:

• Non-phase-in substances;
• Substances only used as one or more of the following:

            o Intermediates,

            o In scientific research and development,

            o In product and process-orientated research and development.

Only IUCLID can be used to make such confidentiality flags. There is no fee for the confidentiality flags in the C&L notification.

The following information is published according to CLP (Article 42):

• The name in the IUPAC nomenclature for substances classified with certain hazard classes or categories set out in Article 119(1)(a), without prejudice to Article 119(2)(f) and (g) of REACH;
• The name of the substance as given in EINECS, if applicable, and other numerical identifiers as appropriate and available;
• The classification and labelling of the substance.

All notifications for any published substance are included in the C&L Inventory and this includes notifications for non-classified substances.