New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals (NZIoC)

NZIoC is different from chemical inventories in other countries. It is only a database of all the hazardous chemical components of products approved under group standards. Many group standards require the hazardous components of products covered under these approvals to be listed on the NZIoC.

If you have a new product you can check the list to see if you comply with the group standard condition. A spreadsheet of the full NZIoC listings can be downloaded here:
NZIoC spreadsheet (excel, 4533 kb)

Updates to NZIoC

The NZIoC is updated regularly with new chemicals that have been notified and verified. To download or search the latest inventory, please click the link below:

NZIoC - New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals

Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (AICS)

The Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances (AICS) is a listing of all industrial chemicals in use in Australia between 1 January 1977 and 28 February 1990. In addition, it includes new assessed chemicals and corrections as required.

The AICS is maintained under the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) and contains over 40,000 chemicals. It consists of the non-confidential (public) section and the confidential section.

Any chemical not included in AICS is regarded as a new industrial chemical unless it is outside the scope of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989 or is otherwise exempt from notification. New industrial chemicals must be notified and assessed before being manufactured or imported into Australia.

Access AICS

Taiwan Chemical Substance Inventory (TCSI)

Taiwan's chemical substance inventory (TCSI) is compiled by the Ministry of Labor(MoL) and it contains more than 79,000 substances that were manufactured in or imported into Taiwan between 1 Jan 1993 and 31 Dec 2011. The inventory has been updated several times by two supplementary existing substance nominations. 

A substance that cannot be found on above existing substance inventory will be regarded as a new substance in Taiwan. You need to comply with both Toxic Chemical Substance Control Act(Taiwan TCSCA) and Occupational Safety and Health Act(Taiwan OSHA) and register your new substance prior to manufacture or importation. It shall be noted that existing substances may also require registration under TCSCA. 

To access the inventory and learn more info about new substance registration under TCSCA, please click the link below.
National Existing Chemical Inventory in Taiwan

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REACH SVHC List 2015

Substances fulfilling one or more of the criteria defined in Article 57 of the REACH Regulation can be identified as "substances of very high concern" (SVHC) and put on the "candidate List for authorization" which is also called "REACH SVHC list". These SVHC can be:

• substances meeting the criteria for classification as carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic (CMR) category 1 or 2;
• persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBT) substances; or
• very persistent and very bio-accumulative (vPvB) substances;
• substances for which there is evidence for similar concern, such as endocrine disruptors.

SVHCs may be further included in the Authorization List (REACH Annex XVII) and become subject to authorization. These substances cannot be placed on the market or used after a given date, unless an authorization is granted for their specific use, or the use is exempted from authorisation.

Reminder: There are 3 important regulatory lists under REACH: REACH SVHC List, REACH Authorization List and REACH Restricted Substance List. Have you read about the other two lists?

Current State of REACH SVHC List

The candidate list for authorization or SVHC list is updated frequently. There are 161 substances on the candidate list(last updated: 17 December 2014). Please click the picture below to download the latest REACH SVHC list. It also shows how to find out the date of inclusion for a substance on the list.

What does REACH SVHC list mean to you?

You shall closely monitor the update of SVHC list. You may have immediate legal obligations following inclusion of the substance on the REACH SVHC list.

If your article contains substance(s) included in the SVHC list in concentration above 0.1% (w/w), you need to fulfill the following obligations:

• Duty to communication information on SVHCs - REACH article 33;
• Notification of SVHC in articles to ECHA- REACH article 7(2);

It shall be noted that you also need to check if your products contain any substances on REACH restricted substance list..

Read more about REACH SVHC list.

Related Substance Restrictions

REACH Substance of Very High Concern (SVHC)

REACH Restricted Substances

EU RoHS/RoHS 2

China RoHS 2

Norway PoHS

Swiss Chemical Risk Reduction Ordinance

California Proposition 65

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)

Ozone-depleting Substances

Mercury and Its Compounds