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

¹ Re­quests to use an al­tern­at­ive chem­ic­al name for a sub­stance in a pre­par­a­tion must be writ­ten in an of­fi­cial lan­guage or in Eng­lish and be sub­mit­ted elec­tron­ic­ally in the format re­quired by the No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity. The ac­com­pa­ny­ing let­ter must be writ­ten in an of­fi­cial lan­guage.

² Re­quests must con­tain:

a.

the man­u­fac­turer’s name, ad­dress and tele­phone num­ber;

b.

the fol­low­ing in­form­a­tion re­lat­ing to the sub­stances whose iden­tity is to re­main con­fid­en­tial on the la­bel:

1.

the chem­ic­al name,

2.

the Chem­ic­al Ab­stracts Ser­vice (CAS) re­gistry num­ber⁵³,

3.

the EC num­ber;

c.

the al­tern­at­ive name of the sub­stance;

d.

the reas­ons for the re­quest;

e.

the trade name or des­ig­na­tion of the pre­par­a­tion;

f.

the in­form­a­tion on the con­stitu­ents in ac­cord­ance with the pro­vi­sions re­lat­ing to the safety data sheet;

g.

the clas­si­fic­a­tion of the pre­par­a­tion;

h.

the la­belling of the pre­par­a­tion;

i.

the in­ten­ded uses of the pre­par­a­tion;

j.

the phys­ic­al state;

k.

if ap­plic­able, the safety data sheet.

³ The No­ti­fic­a­tion Au­thor­ity shall de­cide on the re­quest in con­sulta­tion with the as­sess­ment au­thor­it­ies.