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BIA Business Impact Assessment
C&L Classification and Labelling
CAS Chemical Abstract Service
Cefic European Chemical Industry Council
CIA Chemical Industries Association
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
DUs Downstream Users
DUCC Downstream Users of Chemicals Co-ordination Group
EBW Exposure-Based Waiving
ECHA European Chemicals Agency
ECB European Chemicals Bureau
ECICS database European Customs Inventory of Chemical Substances
ECVAM JRC's European Centre for the Validation of Alternative Methods
EIC Euro Info Centres
EINECS List of substances compiled in 1981 that today are considered "existing substances";The European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical 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.
ENTR DG Enterprise
ENV DG Environment
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
HEROs Highest Expected Regulatory Outcome
HPLC High Pressure Liquid Chromatography
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
IRPTC International Register of Potentially Toxic Chemicals
ISO International Standards Organisation
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
NCD New Chemicals Database
NLP No-Longer Polymers
NOAEL No observed adverse effect level
NOEC No observed effect concentration
NOEL No observed effect level
OECD Economic Co-operation and Development
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
PP Precautionary Principle
PPORD Product and Process Oriented Research and Development
RA Risk Assessment
RAR Risk Assessment Report
RDBMS Relational Database Management System.(A system for database management of a relational database)
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
SME Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
SPORT Strategic Partnership on REACH Testing
SVHC Substance of Very High Concern
TGD Technical Guidance Document
TRA Targeted Risk Assessment
TSCA Toxic Substance Control Act
UEAPME European Association of Craft, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises
UICPA Union Internationale de Chimie Pure et Appliquée.International union for pure applied chemistry
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
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