Overview
Published OECD
Assessments
Tracking
Chemicals
Search Capabilities
Useful Lists of Reports
Data Ownership
This database can help OECD member countries
and the chemical industry select chemicals for sponsorship, track the status of chemical and chemical categories, obtain
published OECD assessments, find a SIDS contact point, or view a variety of useful reports and lists on chemicals within the
OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment
Programme.
Published OECD Assessments
Once agreed and finalized in the OECD, the database
contains all documents associated with the final published assessment (profiles, assessment reports and
dossiers).
Tracking
Chemicals
This database tracks all chemicals in the OECD
cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme. High production volume (HPV) chemicals are tracked from the time that they are
identified as an HPV to OECD until a full SIDS assessment has been completed. Other chemicals (such as targeted assessments)
are tracked from either the time they are identified to OECD or when they are submitted for discussion at a Cooperative
Chemicals Assessment Meeting (CoCAM) through completion. The database contains any annotations on each chemical provided to
the Secretariat by member countries.
Search
Capabilities
The database has a comprehensive search facility
allowing searches for chemical information based on selected criteria. For example, data on individual chemicals can be
searched, or the chemical information can be searched according to whether it has been sponsored (e.g. in the case of HPV
chemical), who sponsored it, its SIDS process status, ICCA status, or type of assessment (targeted/non-targeted). Further
information on search criteria is included in the “Help” section.
Useful
Lists of Reports
In addition to searching for specific user-defined
information, the database also contains several useful lists and reports For example, users can view a list of all sponsored
chemicals by country or an alphabetical list of all chemical categories. Under “Reports”, for example, the “Overall Status”
report allows users to view the statistics on the status of all chemicals that have been assessed in the
programme.
Data
Ownership
The summaries and evaluations contained in this
assessment report may be based on unpublished proprietary data submitted for the purpose of the OECD
assessment.
In many cases, national/regional regulatory
authorities will not accept a regulatory submission based on the summaries and evaluation of unpublished proprietary data
contained in this [these] assessment report[s] unless they have received the data on which the summaries and evaluation are
based, either from:
- the owner of the data; or
- a second party that has obtained permission from the owner of the data for this purpose; or alternatively
- the applicant has received permission from the data owner that the summary and evaluation contained in this [these]
assessment report[s] may be used in lieu of the data; or
- following expiry of any period of exclusive use, mandatory compensation, where required, has been offered unless
the period of protection for the proprietary data concerned has expired.
Applicants who wish to use data in these assessment
reports should ensure that the use is consistent with the legal requirements in the country/region in which it is proposed to
use the data.
