Korean Existing Chemicals List

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The Korean Existing Chemicals List is the South Korean chemical inventory.

It consists of six different lists:

  1. Generally also Korean Existing Chemicals List (KECL) ECL called
  2. Toxic Chemicals List
  3. Observational Chemicals List
  4. Restricted Toxic Chemicals List
  5. List of Chemicals Prohibited from Manufacture
  6. Import and Use and the Non-toxic Chemicals List

All substances that are not included in the first list (ECL) must be registered and subjected to a toxicological test, etc. The ECL list contains around 36,000 substances.

The Korean Ministry of Environment (MOE) introduced the Toxic Chemicals Control Act (TCCA) in 1991.

MOE revised the TCCL so that the use of dangerous and toxic chemicals in South Korea could be monitored.

In accordance with the TCCL, importers of chemical substances / products must provide appropriate information to the Korea Chemical Management Association (KCMA), which can be associated with high costs.

If the chemicals / components of the products are listed in the ECL, this obligation to provide evidence does not apply, as the data are known or the substance / product was used in South Korea before the TCCL came into force.

Examples of different chemical inventories

  • REACH - EU
  • AICS - Australian Inventory of Chemical Substances
  • DSL - Canadian Domestic Substances List
  • NDSL - Canadian Non-Domestic Substances List
  • ENCS (MITI inventory) - Japanese Existing and New Chemical Substances (see Chemicals Law (Japan) )
  • PICCS - Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances
  • TSCA - Toxic Substances Control Act (since 1976)
  • IECSC - Inventory of Existing Chemical Substances Produced or Imported in China
  • NECI - National Existing Chemical Inventory in Taiwan
  • NZIoC - New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals
  • Poison List - Swiss Poison Lists 1-3 (until 2005)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statutes of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved May 8, 2020 .