The National Institute of Environmental Research (NIER) in South Korea consults on a draft amendment of ‘the results of hazard review of chemical substances’ under the Act on Registration and Evaluation of Chemicals (K-REACH) on October 6^th, 2022. This is to disclose chemical substance name due to the cancellation of data protection.

The draft amendment mainly proposes revisions including:

• Information disclosed based on the results of hazard review: 347 of new substances
• Information disclosed due to the termination of data protection period

If you have any opinion on this amendment, please write your opinion and submit it to the NIER.

The deadline for this consultation is Oct 26^th, 2022.