ECHA 将在授权申请意见中发布哪些环境释放信息？

ECHA 将在授权申请意见中发布哪些环境释放信息？

What environmental release information will ECHA publish as part of the opinions on applications for authorisation?

欧洲化学品管理局 (ECHA) 将公布非阈值物质（例如环境内分泌干扰物、多巴胺 (PBT) 和高残留高生物量 (vPvB)）的排放量。如果申请人未声明排放量需保密，ECHA 还将公布与这些排放量相关的环境排放因子。在这种情况下，ECHA 将披露排放量本身以及经过删减的排放因子信息（参见示例）。ECHA 鼓励申请人公开排放因子。事实上，在迄今为止（2020 年 3 月）收到的三分之二的申请中，申请人提供了此类信息，但未声明排放因子及其排放量需保密。需要注意的是，实际排放因子和排放量信息始终会提供给 ECHA 的风险评估委员会和社会经济分析委员会，供其评估申请并向欧盟委员会提供意见。依据：REACH 法规第 64(6) 条规定，ECHA 应根据第 118 条和第 119 条的规定，确定其意见的哪些部分应在其网站上公开。第 118(2)(c) 条规定，披露精确吨位通常被视为损害有关方面商业利益的保护。根据《奥胡斯条例》（第 6(1) 条），当有人请求提供与环境排放相关的信息时，即视为存在信息披露的首要公共利益。因此，欧洲化学品管理局认为，从公共利益和知情权的角度来看，排放值是非保密的。这项政策符合欧洲化学品管理局透明度和效率的核心价值观，承认《奥胡斯条例》规定的披露排放的首要公共利益。示例：某种物质的用量为每年 2,000 公斤，释放系数为 0.2%，因此每年向环境中的排放量为 4 公斤。除非申请人声称该用量保密，否则欧洲化学品管理局将把此信息作为其意见的一部分公布。如果申请人声称不应向公众披露使用量，ECHA 将公布一定范围内的体积（例如 1 000-5 000 公斤）、相应的一定范围内的释放因子（例如 0.1%-0.4%）以及向环境中的排放量（4 公斤）。

ECHA will publish the emissions of non-threshold substances such as environmental endocrine disruptors, PBTs, and vPvBs. It will also publish the release factors related to these emissions to the environment in cases where the applicant has not claimed the volumes used to be confidential. In such cases, ECHA will disclose the emissions as such and redacted information on the release factor (see example). ECHA encourages applicants to be transparent about the release factors. Indeed, in two thirds of applications received to date (March 2020), applicants have provided this information without claiming the information on the release factor and thus the volume used confidential. Note that the actual release factors and volumes used are always made available to ECHA’s Committees for Risk Assessment and Socio-economic Analysis when they evaluate the applications and give opinions to the European Commission. Justification: Article 64(6) of the REACH Regulation says that the Agency shall determine in accordance with Article 118 and 119 which parts of its opinions should be made publicly available on its website. Article 118(2)(c) provides that disclosure of precise tonnage is normally deemed to undermine the protection of commercial interests of the concerned party. Under the Aarhus Regulation (Article 6(1)), an overriding public interest in disclosure is deemed to exist where a request is made for information relating to emissions to the environment. ECHA thus considers that emission values are non-confidential from a viewpoint of public interest and right to know.   This policy is consistent with the ECHA’s core values of transparency and efficiency, recognising the overriding public interest in the disclosure of emissions set out in the Aarhus Regulation. Example: The volume used of substance is 2 000 kg per year, the release factor is 0.2% and thus the emissions to the environment are 4 kg per year. Unless the applicant has claimed the volume confidential, ECHA will publish this information as part of its opinion. If the applicant claimed that the volume used should not be disclosed to the public, ECHA would instead publish the volume within a range (e.g. 1 000-5 000 kg), the corresponding release factor also within a range (e.g. 0.1%-0.4 %) and the emission to the environment (4 kg).