In November 2023, the Philippine Environmental Management Bureau under the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR-EMB) released drafts on updating the Philippine Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances (PICCS) for year 2022 and 2023, which would expand the present number of chemicals listed in the PICCS from 22,277 to 22,439 with the addition of 162 new chemicals. Comment for the drafts may be submitted to recordsco@emb.gov.ph.
The PICCS is a list of all existing chemicals and chemical substances used, sold, distributed, imported, processed, manufactured, stored, exported, treated, or transported in the Philippines. The updating of PICCS is done annually and includes all new chemicals that have been issued non-confidential Pre-Manufacture and Pre-Importation Notification (PMPIN) Clearance Certificates. The latest version of PICCS include PICCS 2017 and EMB MC 2020-007 and EMB MC 2021-08.
For chemicals listed in the PICCS, if they are not further regulated under Priority Chemical List (PCL) or Chemical Control Orders (CCO), they can be exported to Philippines without market access restriction.
Here is the 2022 and 2023 draft lists of chemicals to be included in PICCS.
