EINECS - Official EC Inventory

Official EC Inventory

The EC Inventory includes the substances in the following inventories. The content of these inventories is fixed and official.

Inventory Scope Format No. of entries (if fixed No. of entries)
European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances, (EINECS) Substances, excluding polymers, that were recorded as being commercially available in the EU from 1 January 1971 to 18 September 1981. These were considered registered registered under Article 8(1) of the Dangerous Substances Directive (67/548/EEC). They are considered phase-in substances under the REACH Regulation 2xx-xxx-x
3xx-xxx-x
100,204
European List of Notified Chemical Substances, (ELINCS) Substances notified under the Dangerous Substances Directive Notification of New Substances (NONS) that became commercially available after 18 September 1981. 4xx-xxx-x 4,381
No Longer Polymers (NLP) The definition of polymers was changed in April, 1992 with the result that substances previously considered to be polymers were no longer excluded from regulation. Consequently, a list, called the NLP-list, was made of such substances that were commercially available between after 18 September 1981 and 31 October 1993. 5xx-xxx-x 703

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