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Disclaimer
The European Chemicals Agency maintains this website to enhance public access to information about its initiatives. Our goal is to keep this information timely and accurate. If errors are brought to our attention, we will try to correct them. However the Agency accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site, and the information does not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the Agency.
This information is:
- of a general nature only and is not intended to address the specific circumstances of any particular individual or entity;
- not necessarily comprehensive, complete, accurate or up to date;
- sometimes linked to external sites over which the European Chemicals Agency has no control and for which the Agency assumes no responsibility;
- not professional or legal advice (if you need specific advice, you should always consult a suitably qualified professional).
Please note that it cannot be guaranteed that a document available online exactly reproduces an officially adopted text. Only European Union legislation published in paper editions of the Official Journal of the European Union is deemed authentic.
It is our goal to minimize disruption caused by technical errors. However, some data or information on our site may have been created or structured in files or formats that are not error-free and we cannot guarantee that our service will not be interrupted or otherwise affected by such problems. The Agency accepts no responsibility with regard to such problems incurred as a result of using this site or any linked external sites.
Copyright Notice
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Personal Data Protection
ECHA is committed to user privacy.
The policy in relation to protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community institutions is based on Regulation (EC) No 45/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2000.
You can browse the ECHA website without giving away any personal information. However, in some cases, personal details are required in order for us to be able to provide personal e-services, for instance helpdesk support, public consultations or software applications.
In this respect:
- For each specific e-service, ECHA determines the purposes and methods of the processing of personal data and ensures conformity of the specific e-service with the privacy policy.
- The ECHA Data Protection Officer monitors compliance with the Regulation.
- As with all EU Institutions and Agencies, the European Data Protection Supervisor also acts for ECHA as an independent supervisory authority with regard to the protection of personal data.
For any general enquiry relating to the overall privacy policy of the ECHA website, please send an e-mail to info (at) echa.europa.eu.
For any specific question or comment relating to the implementation of data protection provisions at ECHA, please send an e-mail to data-protection-officer (at) echa.europa.eu.
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External Links
We provide links to many European Institutions and other sites that are relevant to the Agency's work. You should be aware that:
- If you access another site through a link we provide, you are subject to the privacy policy of that site.
- ECHA is not responsible for the contents of any pages referred to from its website. Linking to other web sites should not be taken as an endorsement of any kind by ECHA.
ECHA welcomes links to our site. If you represent a European level organisation involved in chemicals management and would like to have a link from our site, please contact us (choose "ECHA information desk" option) giving the name and address of your site, a description of its content and information on corrections, deletions or additions. We do not provide links to personal sites, political advocacy sites, political campaign sites, and commercial sites. We also reserve the right to exclude any site due to its lack of suitability for inclusion.
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Additional Disclaimer for Information from Registration Dossiers and Notifications to the C&L Inventory
Information on Registered Substances comes from registration dossiers which have been assigned a registration number. The assignment of a registration number does however not guarantee that the information in the dossier is correct or that the dossier is compliant with REACH.
The information in C&L Inventory comes from the C&L notifications. This information has not been reviewed or verified by ECHA or any other authority. The content is subject to change without prior notice.
ECHA cannot guarantee the correctness of the information in the databases and the REACH Regulation does not permit it to make modifications to the data provided by registrants.
Use the information with care. Reproduction or further distribution of the information may be subject to copyright laws and might require the permission of the owner of that information.
Potential registrants are reminded that pursuant to Article 10 of the REACH Regulation, robust study summaries and study summaries disseminated via ECHA CHEM portal may only be used for the purpose of registration where the potential registrant is in legitimate possession of the full study report or has permission to refer to the full study report.
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