| C&L |
|
Classification and Labelling |
| CAS |
|
Chemical Abstract Service |
| Cefic |
|
European Chemical Industry Council |
| CMRs |
|
Carcinogenic, Mutagenic or Toxic (for reproduction)
Chemicals classified under Directive 67/548) |
| CSA |
|
Chemical Safety Assessment |
| CSR |
|
Chemical Safety Report |
| CSTEE |
|
Scientific Committee on Toxicology, Ecotoxicology and Environment (CSTEE) |
| DNEL |
|
Derived No-Effect Level |
| DU |
|
Downstream Users |
| ECB |
|
European Chemicals Bureau |
| ECVAM |
|
JRC's European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods |
| EINECS |
|
List of substances compiled in 1981 that today are considered "existing substances" |
| ELINCS |
|
European List of Notified Chemical Substances |
| EMEA |
|
European Medicines Agency |
| Endocrine disrupters |
|
Substances of very high concern that mimic or inhibit the effects of hormones. |
| ESIS |
|
European Chemical Substance Information System |
| EUSES |
|
European Union System for the Evaluation of Substances |
| GHS |
|
the UN's Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling |
| GLP |
|
Good Laboratory Practice |
| HPV |
|
High Production Volume Chemicals |
| IARC |
|
International Agency for Research on Cancer |
| ICCA |
|
International Council of Chemical Associations |
| IFCS |
|
Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety |
| ILO |
|
International Labour Organisation |
| in vitro-testing |
|
Studies done with cell or tissue cultures |
| in vivo -testing |
|
Studies done with live animals |
| IUCLID |
|
International Uniform Chemical Information Database |
| IUPAC |
|
International Union for Pure Applied Chemistry |
| JRC |
|
Joint Research Centre |
| LCA |
|
Life Cycle Assessment |
| LOEL |
|
Lowest observed Effect Level |
| LVP |
|
Low Production Volume Chemicals |
| MOS |
|
Margins of safety |
| MS Cas |
|
Member States Competent Authorities |
| NLP |
|
No-Longer Polymers |
| NOAEL |
|
No observed adverse effect level |
| NOEC |
|
No observed effect concentration |
| NOEL |
|
No observed effect level |
| ORATS |
|
Online European Risk Assessment Tracking System |
| OSOR |
|
One Substance, One Registration |
| OSPAR |
|
Oslo - Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North East Atlantic |
| PBT |
|
Persistent, Bio-accumulative and Toxic |
| PEC |
|
Predicted environmental concentration |
| PIC |
|
Prior Informed Consent (the Rotterdam Convention of Prior Informed Consent sets up a system to control international trade in certain hazardous substances. |
| PNEC |
|
Predicted No-Effect Concentration |
| Polymers |
|
large molecules consisting of repeated chemical units (monomers) |
| POPs |
|
Persistent Organic Pollutants |
| PPORD |
|
Product and Process Oriented Research and Development |
| RA |
|
Risk Assessment |
| RAR |
|
Risk Assessment Report |
| REACH |
|
Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals |
| RIPs |
|
REACH Implementation Projects |
| RMM |
|
Risk Management Measures |
| SAICM |
|
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management |
| SAR (Q)SAR |
|
(Quantitative) Structure Activity Relationship |
| SDS |
|
Safety Data Sheet - tool for information transfer for all dangerous substances |
| SEA |
|
Socio-economic analysis |
| SIDS |
|
Screening Information Data Set |
| SIEF |
|
Substance Information Exchange Forum |
| SPORT |
|
Strategic Partnership on REACH Testing |
| SVHC |
|
Substance of Very High Concern |
| TGD |
|
Technical Guidance Document |
| TSCA |
|
Toxic Substance Control Act |
| UNCED |
|
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
| UNEP |
|
United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNICE |
|
Union des Industries de la Communauté Européenne |
| UVCB |
|
Substances of unknown variable composition, complex reaction products or biological materials |
| vPvB |
|
Very Persistent, Very Bio-accumulative |
| WTO |
|
World Trade Organisation |
REACH
