The European Commission has recently granted an <link http: ec.europa.eu docsroom documents _blank>authorisation to Chimcomplex S.A. Borzesti for the industrial use of trichloroethylene as a solvent and as a degreasing agent in closed systems. The authorisation number is REACH/16/9/0.

If Chimcomplex S.A. Borzesti is your immediate or further upstream supplier for this substance, the authorisation number should be included in the safety data sheet (SDS) they provide.

If you do not have your own authorisation for your use, you have to comply with the conditions of the authorisation described in the SDS. You need to notify your use to ECHA within three months of the first time the substance was delivered to you after the authorisation decision was published in the Official Journal.