European Chemicals Agency adds two new substances to Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern: Diphenyl (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl) phosphine oxide, often used in inks, toners, adhesives, sealants; and Bis (4-chlorophenyl) sulphone, used in plastics

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July 7, 2023 (press release) –

On 14^th June 2023, the ECHA (European Chemicals Agency) released the new Candidate List of SVHCs. With the addition of 2 new substances, the current list of SVHCs now contains 235 substances.

See below a table indicating the latest substances addition:

Nº	Substance name	EC number	CAS number	Reason for inclusion	Examples of use(s)
1	Diphenyl(2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phosphine oxide	278-355-8	75980-60-8	Toxic for reproduction (Article 57c)	Inks and toners, coating products, photo-chemicals, polymers, adhesives and sealants and fillers, putties, plasters, modelling clay.
2	Bis(4-chlorophenyl) sulphone	201-247-9	80-07-9	vPvB (Article 57 e)	Manufacture of chemicals, plastic products and rubber products.

Legal obligations for companies using SVHC substances include:

Suppliers provide customers and consumers with enough information to allow for safe use of products that contain a substance of very high concern (SVHC) above a concentration of 0.1 % (weight by weight)
Importers and producers of these products must notify the ECHA if their article contains SVHC substances above a concentration of 0.1% weight by weight (w/w) and the substance is present in those products in quantities totalling over 1 tonne per producer or per importer per year. The notifications have to be submitted within six months from the date it that the substance is included in the list.
Suppliers of substances on the Candidate List, supplied either on their own or in mixtures, have to provide their customers with a safety data sheet.
Under the Waste Framework Directive (Directive 2008/98/EC on waste- WFD), any supplier of an article containing a substance of very high concern (SVHC) in a concentration above 0.1% weight by weight (w/w) on the EU market is required to submit a SCIP Notification on that article to ECHA, as of 5 January 2021. SCIP is the database holding information on Substances of Concern in articles, as such or in complex objects (products), established under the WFD. The SCIP database complements the existing notification obligations for Candidate List substances in articles subject to REACH regulation and its related communication through the supply chain, according to Articles 7 (2) and 33 respectively.

Click here to access the official List from ECHA’s website.

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