SCIP obligation extended to include EEA countries
Harry Wild, September 20th, 2022
Harry is a Senior Consultant in EC4P's Recycling Compliance practice and graduated from the University of Nottingham with an MSc (Hons) in Chemistry.
As of the 1st of August 2022, the Waste Framework Directive (WFD) has been incorporated into the EEA Agreement and is now in force.
Practically, this means that as a SCIP duty holder, you are obligated to submit SCIP dossiers for your articles/complex objects containing an SVHC above the 0.1% weight by weight threshold in a further three countries, if you have a registered business and place products on the markets in the additional countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
Because the WFD is transposed into national law, if you have an obligation in more than one EEA country, you have an obligation to report the affected article(s)/complex objects in each of the affected countries.
Countries in which SCIP obligations currently apply:
Austria, Germany, Malta, Belgium, Greece, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Hungary, Norway, Croatia, Iceland, Poland, Republic of Cyprus, Ireland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Italy, Romania, Denmark, Latvia, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Finland, Liechtenstein, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Sweden.
For more information on this topic and for assistance with managing your substance compliance obligations for products that you place on the market, please contact us.