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

¹ The as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies may re­view any ex­ist­ing sub­stances which:

a.¹¹³

may rep­res­ent a par­tic­u­lar risk to hu­man life or health or to the en­vir­on­ment, ow­ing to the quant­it­ies man­u­fac­tured or placed on the mar­ket or ow­ing to their dan­ger­ous nature or the dan­ger­ous nature of their sec­ond­ary products or wastes; or

b.

are in­cluded in an in­ter­na­tion­al ex­ist­ing sub­stances pro­gramme.

² If an ex­ist­ing sub­stance is to be re­viewed, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity, at the re­quest of an as­sess­ment au­thor­ity, shall re­quire all the man­u­fac­tur­ers con­cerned to provide the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion:

a.

the name and ad­dress of the man­u­fac­turer, and the name and ad­dress of the for­eign man­u­fac­turer if the man­u­fac­turer im­ports the sub­stance;

b.

all doc­u­ments used in as­sess­ing and es­tab­lish­ing the haz­ard­ous prop­er­ties of the sub­stance;

c.

the known uses;

d.

in­form­a­tion on the quant­it­ies placed on the mar­ket by the man­u­fac­tur­ers;

e.

the re­gis­tra­tion dossier sub­mit­ted to the European Chem­ic­als Agency, provided it is avail­able and can be ob­tained by the no­ti­fi­er with reas­on­able ef­fort.

³ If re­ques­ted by an as­sess­ment au­thor­ity, the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall re­quest one of the man­u­fac­tur­ers to carry out in­vest­ig­a­tions or stud­ies. The costs in­curred by the man­u­fac­turer shall be borne jointly by all the man­u­fac­tur­ers con­cerned.