Applications for authorisation can cover uses of a given substance by the applicant, uses further down in the supply chain, or both.

Downstream users covered by an authorisation granted to an actor up their supply chain must notify ECHA of their use. This requirement is based on Article 66 of REACH.

ECHA keeps a register of downstream user notifications and passes the information to the Member State competent authorities.

The graph below gives an overview of all downstream user notifications received to date. For completeness, for the respective substances also the granted authorisations are presented. ECHA will update the information on a quarterly basis.

More details on the geographical distribution of uses are available under ‘Maps and graphs’.

Information collected from individual notifications is presented under ‘Register of notifications’.

The information provided is based on notifications received from users. Therefore, inaccuracies may exist. Please consult ECHA’s legal notice for further information.

Authorised uses per SVHC since 2016 (cumulative)^*)

*) Includes only substances for which there are authorisations covering downstream users. For information including other substances from the Authorisation List, see ‘Statistics on received applications’.
AH = authorisation holders, DU = downstream users.

• Maps and graphs
• Register of notifications

Authorised uses per SVHC ^*)

*) Includes only substances for which there are authorisations covering downstream users.
**) These are uses for which companies have an authorisation themselves. They also include authorisations held by companies whose applications covered downstream uses, as the same uses are permitted to take place also at the authorisation holders’ sites. However, it is possible that in practice the authorisation holders do not themselves use the substance.
***) All authorisations for HBCDD expired on 21 August 2017.

Geographical distribution of authorised uses over time

The number of downstream user notifications is counted as follows:

• Each use per site is counted as a separate notification, and the total number of active notifications (uses) is reported. So, if there are four uses of a substance at one site, and three (same or different) uses at another site, this is counted as seven notifications.
• If ECHA subsequently receives an update of a notification showing that the substance is no longer used at a site (ceased or substituted use), the number of uses at that site will be deducted from the current total number of notifications.
• Uses for which the authorisation’s review period has expired and no review report has been submitted are deducted from the counts (this also applies to the uses of authorisation holders).

Note: Statistics published prior to June 2018 contained some inaccuracies due to a mistake in the counting algorithm. As of June 2018, prior period errors have been corrected retrospectively for all data. The correction has affected mainly the counts for the substance HBCDD and, to a lesser extent, those for other substances.