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Thailand Department of Industrial Works (DIW) has recently announced that a REACH-like regulation for new substances is on the agenda and a national existing substances inventory is being established.
According to DIW’s tentative plan, any substances that fail to be notified by the industry before December 31st, 2016 will be regarded as new substances. The notification is supposed to be in the say way as the notification of Annex 5.6. The concepts of “risk assessment” and “substance of very high concern (SVHC)” are also introduced. Enterprises should conduct further risk assessment on the SVHCs. There is no SVHC list at present, but the authority proposed the criteria for SVHCs to public. Similar to those in EU REACH, the criteria include:
Substances manufactured or imported over 10 ton/year
Carcinogenic, mutagenic or reproductive toxic (CMR) 1A or 1B substances
Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) substances
Very persistent very bioaccumulative (vPvB) substances
Substances of an equivalent level of concern
Substances listed in UN chemicals conventions
Currently, there is only one major inventory in the Thailand chemical regulating system, which is the Hazardous Substances List (B.E. 2556). In this February DIW required the industry to notify their substances that meet certain hazardous criteria and aren’t on the list (B.E. 2558). These substances were then listed in the Annex 5.6 to the Hazardous Substances List and made the list more comprehensive and consolidated. The existing substances inventory currently being compiled will include the current hazardous substances list. Besides, there are some other substances lists that the inventory will combine, including:
The substances listed in the DIW consultation database
The substances listed on the National Single Window (NSW) list (optional)
Any other hazardous substances list that is issued before the final existing substances inventory is published
Together with the Hazardous Substances List (including Annex 5.6) and the substances notified by the industry later, these lists will constitute the biggest inventory under Thailand chemical management regulations.
