Ordinance
on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations
(Chemicals Ordinance, ChemO)

¹ Man­u­fac­tur­ers of pre­par­a­tions may use an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name for a sub­stance if:

a.

they demon­strate that dis­clos­ing the name of the sub­stance on the la­bel or in the safety data sheet would put the con­fid­en­tial nature of their busi­ness, in par­tic­u­lar their in­tel­lec­tu­al prop­erty rights, at risk; and

b.

the sub­stance meets the cri­ter­ia spe­cified in Sec­tion 1.4 of An­nex I to the CLP Reg­u­la­tion, in the ap­plic­able ver­sion re­ferred to in An­nex 2 num­ber 1.

² The al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name shall be a name that iden­ti­fies the most im­port­ant func­tion­al groups or serves as an al­tern­at­ive des­ig­na­tion.

³ Man­u­fac­tur­ers wish­ing to use an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name must make a re­quest in writ­ing to the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity.

⁴ The use of an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name may be re­ques­ted for a pre­par­a­tion:

a.

in a spe­cif­ic com­pos­i­tion;

b.

with a spe­cif­ic trade name or a spe­cif­ic des­ig­na­tion; and

c.

re­served for cer­tain uses.

⁵ Au­thor­isa­tion to use an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name is gran­ted to the man­u­fac­turer and is non-trans­fer­able.

⁶ In the first six years after the re­port­ing, de­clar­a­tion or no­ti­fic­a­tion of a new sub­stance, au­thor­isa­tion is not re­quired for the man­u­fac­turer and pro­fes­sion­al users to use an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name. There­after, the chem­ic­al name as spe­cified in Art­icle 18 para­graph 2 of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion⁴⁵ must be used, or a re­quest to use an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name must be sub­mit­ted.⁴⁶