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 |