Taiwan Re-Opens Nomination Process for Existing Chemical Inventory
Sunday 24 June 2012 at 12:00 am.
The Council of Labor Affairs announced a Supplementary Existing Chemical Substance Nomination (ECN) process on April 18, 2012. This will provide an additional opportunity for companies to nominate commercial chemicals to the Existing Chemical Substanes inventory, which has currently been released as a draft. The initial nomination process ended on December 31, 2010.
Supplementary ECN is scheduled to open for three months, beginning on June 1st and ending on August 31st, 2012. Chemical substances imported to or manufactured, handled, used, or sold in Taiwan during January 1, 1993 and December 31, 2011, and are NOT listed in the National Existing Chemical Substance Inventory (draft) as existing chemical substances can be nominated pursuant to this Direction.
Certain substances are exempt and are therefore out of the scope of the nomination process. These include [1] substances or polymers occuring in nature without processing or tranformation, [2] new polymers which adhere to the "2% rule", [3] non-isolated intermediates, [4] articles, [5] by-products or impurities without commercial value and [6] wastes.