Registration dossiers need to be submitted to the Chemical Registration Centre (CRC) in Beijing, China for processing. The dossier is first checked for technical completeness and evaluated by the evaluation committee. The notification dossier documents are required to be in Chinese with notarised translations for non-Chinese languages.
Similar to the REACh regulation in Europe, an OR-like representative is required for non-Chinese enterprises registering new substances. The OR-like representative is required to complete the registration and assume the post-registration tracking obligations. A Chinese importer can also notify, thereby relieving its foreign supplier of its registration obligations.
According to the MEP's 'Guide for New Chemical Substance Notification', a Chinese downstream user can also register an already registered substance. This is in the case of the use of a substance classified by the evaluation committee as 'hazardous and of concern'.
