End of the transition period for adaptation to Annex VIII of the CLP Regulation: Harmonized Notifications (PCN) and their impact
The end of the transition period for adaptation to Annex VIII of the CLP Regulation will occur on January 1, 2025, also known as harmonized notifications (PCN).
This means that all products available on the European market that meet the requirements established in the regulation must have their notification in harmonized format submitted and updated in all countries where they are sold to ensure safety and access to information. Any national previous PCN notification will not be valid anymore in 2025. As an example, in Spain notifications submitted under the previous system to the INTFC and identified by the DRP code are no longer valid, and it is necessary to resubmit them as a PCN dossier, assigning our product a UFI code.
At the same time, in 2025, inspections for the REACH-EN-FORCE (REF-13), project will begin, which is coordinated by the enforcement forum of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). These inspections aim to protect human health by verifying that the information presented on the ECHA portal matches the labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDS) of the products. The ECHA will provide more details about these inspections in the coming months, and it has been established that they will last for the first six months of 2025, with results to be presented by the end of that same year.
At SIAM, our goal is to facilitate the creation and maintenance of the necessary documentation for your chemical products, ensuring that the data presented in the PCNs is consistent with the labels and SDS to avoid issues during potential inspections.
If you have not yet contracted our PCN module, for poison centers notification, you can do it