Environmental Information for Mixtures - Annex to Downstream Communication of Safe Use Information for Mixtures

This guidance forms an annex to the CEPE/EuPIA Guideline on Safe Use Information for Mixtures.

REACH requires that substance registrants will have determined the Environmental Release Categories for substances during their Chemical Safety Assessments. These set generic parameters to ensure that any emissions are adequately controlled. The coatings industry, through CEPE/EuPIA, have developed more tailored Specific Environmental Release Categories (SpERCs) for the various scenarios expected for the industry’s products (see list in 1.4 below). The ‘Bottom-up’ SUMI approach simplifies the passing-on of information to downstream actors and avoids each substance in a formulation having to be assessed separately.