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Notice on matters related to the registration of environmental management of new chemical substances
Release time:
2019-09-06 10:47
The environmental protection departments (bureaus) of all provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, the Environmental Protection Bureau of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, all dispatched agencies, and all reporting units:
The Environmental Management Measures for New Chemical Substances (Order No. 7 of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, hereinafter referred to as "Order No. 7") will come into force on October 15, 2010. The Environmental Management Measures for New Chemical Substances (Order No. 17 of the former State Environmental Protection Administration, hereinafter referred to as "Order No. 17") issued by the former State Environmental Protection Administration on September 12, 2003 shall be abolished at the same time. In order to ensure the orderly continuation of the environmental management registration of new chemical substances, the relevant convergence matters are hereby notified as follows:
The new chemical substance environmental management registration certificate (hereinafter referred to as the "original registration certificate") obtained by the 1. in accordance with the procedures of Order 17 shall continue to be valid after October 15, 2010 (inclusive, the same below) until the new chemical substance is included in the List of Existing Chemical Substances in China (hereinafter referred to as the "List"); the environmental management of new chemical substances obtained according to the order 17 procedure is exempted from the notice of declaration results and will continue to be valid after October 15, 2010.
2. As of October 14, 2010, the holder of the original registration certificate who has actually produced or imported new chemical substances for 5 years shall, within three months after the implementation of Order No. 7, report to the Chemical Registration Center of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (hereinafter referred to as "Registration Center") Submit evidence of the first production or import and apply for the inclusion of the new chemical substance in the list; the holder of the original registration certificate who has actually produced or imported new chemical substances but has not completed 5 years shall submit a report on the actual activities to the registration center within 1 month after the completion of 5 years, and apply for the inclusion of the new chemical substance in the list; The holder of the original registration certificate who has not actually produced or imported new chemical substances shall comply with the provisions of Article 35, paragraph 1 of Decree No. 7, fill in the report form of the first activity to the registration center within 30 days of the first production or import.
Since September 30, 2010, the 3. will no longer accept normal declarations and applications for exemption from declaration procedures required by Decree No. 17. If the previously accepted declaration of new chemical substances cannot be registered before October 15, 2010 due to unqualified data and incomplete data, the time for correction of the data can be extended to April 15, 2011, and the procedures of Decree No. 17 shall be followed. If registration cannot be obtained after April 15, 2011, it shall be handled in accordance with Decree No. 7 and relevant documents.
Production or import of new chemical substances in the 4. bonded area and export processing area, articles designed to intentionally release new chemical substances when regular in use, and new chemical substances as raw materials and intermediates of related products as stipulated in Article 2, paragraph 2 of Decree No. 7, which have been imported or produced before October 15, 2010 and still need to be imported or produced thereafter, new chemical substances shall be registered before October 15, 2011 in accordance with the requirements of Decree No. 7 and related documents.
