Overview

Published OECD Assessments
Tracking Chemicals
Search Capabilities
Useful Lists of Reports
Data Ownership


This database can help OECD member countries and the chemical industry select chemicals for sponsorship, track the status of chemical and chemical categories, obtain published OECD assessments, find a SIDS contact point, or view a variety of useful reports and lists on chemicals within the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme.

Published OECD Assessments

Once agreed and finalized in the OECD, the database contains all documents associated with the final published assessment (profiles, assessment reports and dossiers).

Tracking Chemicals

This database tracks all chemicals in the OECD cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme. High production volume (HPV) chemicals are tracked from the time that they are identified as an HPV to OECD until a full SIDS assessment has been completed. Other chemicals (such as targeted assessments) are tracked from either the time they are identified to OECD or when they are submitted for discussion at a Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Meeting (CoCAM) through completion. The database contains any annotations on each chemical provided to the Secretariat by member countries.

Search Capabilities

The database has a comprehensive search facility allowing searches for chemical information based on selected criteria. For example, data on individual chemicals can be searched, or the chemical information can be searched according to whether it has been sponsored (e.g. in the case of HPV chemical), who sponsored it, its SIDS process status, ICCA status, or type of assessment (targeted/non-targeted). Further information on search criteria is included in the “Help” section.

Useful Lists of Reports

In addition to searching for specific user-defined information, the database also contains several useful lists and reports For example, users can view a list of all sponsored chemicals by country or an alphabetical list of all chemical categories. Under “Reports”, for example, the “Overall Status” report allows users to view the statistics on the status of all chemicals that have been assessed in the programme.

Data Ownership

The summaries and evaluations contained in this assessment report may be based on unpublished proprietary data submitted for the purpose of the OECD assessment.

In many cases, national/regional regulatory authorities will not accept a regulatory submission based on the summaries and evaluation of unpublished proprietary data contained in this [these] assessment report[s] unless they have received the data on which the summaries and evaluation are based, either from:
- the owner of the data; or
- a second party that has obtained permission from the owner of the data for this purpose; or alternatively
- the applicant has received permission from the data owner that the summary and evaluation contained in this [these] assessment report[s] may be used in lieu of the data; or
- following expiry of any period of exclusive use, mandatory compensation, where required, has been offered unless the period of protection for the proprietary data concerned has expired.

Applicants who wish to use data in these assessment reports should ensure that the use is consistent with the legal requirements in the country/region in which it is proposed to use the data.


Need to contact the authors of this database?

The authors of this database are the OECD Secretariat, you can contact them by e-mail at: ehscont@oecd.org

Permanent URL: http://www.oecd.org/env/hazard/data



NOTEThe information on individual chemicals included in this database is solely that notified to OECD by Member countries.