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SCIP

La notification à l'ECHA lorsque votre article contient une substance extrêmement préoccupante.

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Le contenu du guide est affiché en anglais et sourcé aux actes juridiques dont il provient.

Ce que c'est

SCIP stands for 'Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products)'. It is a database run by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) into which companies must submit information about articles they place on the EU market that contain a substance of very high concern (an SVHC) above 0.1% of the article's weight. The point is that when the article eventually becomes waste, recyclers and waste operators can see what hazardous substances are inside it.

Source WFD 2008/98/EC Art 9(1)(i); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

The obligation to notify SCIP comes from the Waste Framework Directive (Art 9(1)(i)), but the trigger — an SVHC on the REACH 'Candidate List' present above 0.1% by weight — comes from REACH. The two operate together: REACH identifies the concerning substances and the 0.1% threshold; the Waste Framework Directive requires the resulting information to be sent to ECHA's public database.

Source WFD 2008/98/EC Art 9(1)(i); REACH (EC) 1907/2006 Art 33(1) + Art 59(10) · relevé le 2026-07-12

The duty has been live since 5 January 2021. It is not a future deadline you are preparing for — it already applies. It also has no minimum quantity: unlike some REACH duties there is no one-tonne-per-year floor, so even a single in-scope article triggers a notification.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.1, Table 1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

SCIP is separate from — and does not replace — the REACH Art 33 duty to pass safe-use information down the supply chain (and to consumers on request within 45 days). Fulfilling one does not discharge the other. Clearlane serves the SCIP-database filing and can also generate the Art 33 safe-use communication from the same data.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.1, §1.5, Table 1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Qui est concerné

Any EU-established supplier that places an in-scope article on the EU market must notify: EU producers and assemblers, EU importers (importing is treated as placing on the market), and EU distributors. The single exemption is narrow — retailers and others supplying articles directly AND exclusively to consumers are out; a distributor that supplies both businesses and consumers is in.

Source REACH Art 3(33) + Art 3(10)/(11); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.2, Table 1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

A non-EU manufacturer has no SCIP duty. The obligation lands on the first EU importer that places the article on the EU market — so if you import goods, the non-EU supplier must pass you the substance data and you notify ECHA. This is the same 'answer-my-file' importer position as EUDR and CBAM.

Source REACH Art 3(10)/(11)/(12); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.2 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Suis-je concerné ?

Répondez à quelques questions. Le verdict est calculé à partir des données de champ d'application citées de cette réglementation — sans compte, et rien ne quitte votre navigateur.

Activez JavaScript pour lancer la vérification interactive. Les questions et options sont listées ci-dessous.

  1. Are you an EU-established supplier that places articles on the EU market?

    EU producer, assembler, importer, or distributor. A non-EU manufacturer has no SCIP duty — it lands on the first EU importer.

    • Yes
    • No
    • Not sure

  2. Are your products articles, or mixtures/substances?

    An article is an object whose shape or design determines its function (a bag, a tool). A mixture is a liquid, powder, or granule.

    • Articles
    • Both articles and mixtures
    • Only mixtures / substances
    • Not sure

  3. Do your articles contain a Candidate List substance of very high concern above 0.1% by weight?

    • Yes
    • No
    • Not sure

  4. Do you supply these articles directly and exclusively to consumers (never to businesses)?

    • Yes, only to consumers
    • No, at least some to businesses

Échéances clés

  1. 5 janvier 2021

    SCIP duty live

    The obligation to submit SCIP notifications has applied since this date. If you place in-scope articles on the EU market, you are already required to notify — there is no grace period left.

    Source WFD 2008/98/EC Art 9(1)(i) + Art 9(2) · relevé le 2026-07-12

  2. 5 janvier 2021

    Trigger — next placing on the market after Candidate-List inclusion

    The duty crystallises when you next supply or place the article on the market after its SVHC is added to the Candidate List. There is NO fixed six-month window for SCIP (that six-month rule belongs to the separate REACH Art 7(2) SiA notification) and no tonnage threshold. In practice the Candidate List is updated about twice a year, so re-check your articles on each update.

    Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.4, Table 1; contrast REACH Art 7(2) · relevé le 2026-07-12

Comment la conformité fonctionne réellement

  1. Collect datapoints

    The notification describes a specific article, so you first record what it is (name, primary identifier, article category from the TARIC/CN list), whether it is made or imported in the EU, which Candidate-List substance it contains and at what concentration, how to use it safely, and — for a complex object — its component tree. This is the information ECHA's format requires.

    Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) Tables 2-6 · relevé le 2026-07-12

  2. Validate

    ECHA runs programmed validation rules on submission and a dossier fails if a mandatory field is missing or malformed. Clearlane checks the same things first — every mandatory field, the concentration range against the six pre-defined ranges, and every declared substance against the versioned Candidate List — so you never get bounced by an ECHA-side rule.

    Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.4; §2.3.1.1-2.3.1.2 · relevé le 2026-07-12

  3. Completeness check

    The law is explicit that responsibility for the quality, accuracy and completeness of the submitted data always remains with the duty holder — ECHA performs no content quality check. So each article carries a reproducible, cited completeness evidence bundle: a deterministic record of what was checked, not an AI opinion.

    Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.4 · relevé le 2026-07-12

  4. Notify ready

    Once every mandatory datapoint is present the article is ready to be filed. Clearlane packages a notification-readiness report you can act on and, today, you can file the article by hand in ECHA's free Submission portal (or its trial version to practise first).

    Source ECHA cloud services / Submission portal (SCIP submissions are free); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

  5. Notify

    The final step is submitting the machine-readable i6z dossier to ECHA, either by upload or automatically via the System-to-System REST API. This is gated in Clearlane until the IUCLID i6z schema and the S2S contract are pinned and the founder completes ECHA onboarding — the port is real and free, but Clearlane never guesses a machine format.

    Source ECHA 'How to join ECHA's system-to-system integration service' (ECHA-19-H-16-EN); ECHA SCIP format / IUCLID 6 · relevé le 2026-07-12

  6. Scip number

    After a successful submission ECHA issues the article's SCIP number. That number is what a downstream distributor can reuse — via a Simplified SCIP Notification — instead of building their own dossier, so the number closes the loop for the whole supply chain.

    Source ECHA 'Tips for preparing simplified SCIP notifications'; ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §3.5 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Glossaire

SVHC (substance of very high concern)

A substance that meets a REACH Art 57 criterion — carcinogenic, mutagenic or toxic to reproduction (CMR 1A/1B), persistent-bioaccumulative-toxic (PBT/vPvB), or of equivalent concern (e.g. an endocrine disruptor). ECHA identifies SVHCs; Clearlane does not judge SVHC status, it consumes the published list.

Source REACH (EC) 1907/2006 Art 57; ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.3.1.1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Candidate List

ECHA's list of SVHCs that are candidates for eventual authorisation. A substance is 'on the Candidate List' if it has been formally identified as an SVHC. It is published under REACH Art 59(10) and updated usually twice a year. Presence on this list (above 0.1% w/w) is what triggers the SCIP duty.

Source REACH Art 59(10); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.3.1.1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Article

Under REACH, an object which during production is given a special shape, surface or design that determines its function more than its chemical composition does — a screw, a cable, a chair. Substances and mixtures on their own are not articles.

Source REACH (EC) 1907/2006 Art 3(3) · relevé le 2026-07-12

Article-as-such

The most granular or basic article unit — the leaf of the component tree. In a complex object it is the individual part that actually carries the SVHC concern element, and the 0.1% test is applied to it, not to the whole assembly.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.3, p.25 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Complex object

An object made up of more than one article joined or assembled together (for example a bicycle, made of frame, chain, tyres). Its SCIP notification links each concerned component down to the article-as-such carrying the SVHC.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.3, Table 5 · relevé le 2026-07-12

O5A — 'once an article, always an article'

The rule that the 0.1% w/w threshold is checked for each article as produced or imported, and an object that is an article stays an article even after being assembled into something bigger. So a 0.15% SVHC content in a small O-ring inside an engine is in scope even though it is a tiny fraction of the whole car — the concentration is never diluted across the finished product.

Source ECJ judgment 10 Sept 2015, Case C-106/14; ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.3 · relevé le 2026-07-12

0.1% w/w threshold

Weight-by-weight: the SVHC's mass as a fraction of the article's mass. Above 0.1% (one part in a thousand) at the article level, the SCIP duty is triggered. All six of ECHA's pre-defined concentration ranges are above this threshold.

Source REACH Art 33(1); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §1.3, §2.3.1.2 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Safe-use information

The information a supplier must provide so the article can be used safely across its whole life cycle, including the waste stage. In a SCIP notification you either tick that identification of the substance is sufficient to allow safe use, or you provide explicit safe-use instructions — at least one is required.

Source REACH Art 33(1); ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) Table 4 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Article category (TARIC/CN)

A mandatory SCIP field: the article's category chosen from a harmonised list based on the EU integrated Tariff (TARIC) and Combined Nomenclature (CN) customs codes — the same customs-code machinery Clearlane already uses for CBAM.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) Table 2 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Primary article identifier

The mandatory key that manages your notification in the ECHA portal — a type (EAN, GTIN, GPC/UPC, catalogue number, part number, or self-defined) plus its value. It is required for technical reasons, so the portal can update the right notification later.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) Table 2 · relevé le 2026-07-12

SSN — Simplified SCIP Notification

A shortcut for distributors: instead of building a full i6z dossier you enter your supplier's article-specific SCIP number in the portal and get your own SCIP number to pass on. If the supplier updates their dossier, your SSN updates automatically — but you remain responsible for the correctness of what you referenced.

Source ECHA 'Tips for preparing simplified SCIP notifications'; ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §3.5 · relevé le 2026-07-12

IUCLID i6z dossier

The machine-readable file format of a SCIP notification — a single '.i6z' (IUCLID 6 zip) archive containing all the inter-related notification data. You upload it to ECHA's Submission portal or send it via the System-to-System API. Its exact schema is gated in Clearlane until pinned.

Source ECHA SCIP format / IUCLID 6; ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.1 · relevé le 2026-07-12

EC number / CAS number

The two standard substance identifiers. The EC (European Community) number is ECHA's identifier; the CAS number is the Chemical Abstracts Service registry number. Each Candidate-List entry carries these where available, and Clearlane uses them as the join key to confirm a declared substance is on the list.

Source ECHA 'Information requirements for SCIP notifications' (ECHA-20-H-16-EN) §2.3.1.1, Table 6 · relevé le 2026-07-12

Ce qui se passe en cas de non-conformité

Enforcement of the SCIP duty is national — each EU Member State sets its own penalties. In Germany, for example, non-compliance with the SCIP-database obligation can carry substantial fines and, in serious cases, criminal liability under the national Chemicals Act. Beyond penalties, a missing or wrong notification blocks the downstream distributor's ability to reference your SCIP number, so the gap propagates through the supply chain.

Source WFD 2008/98/EC Art 36 (Member-State penalties); national implementing law (e.g. Germany, ChemG); docs/research/scip-module-2026-07-12-findings.md §5 (enforcement is national, per-MS) · relevé le 2026-07-12