WFD/SCIP notification: Best-Practice Guidance for the European Space Sector – 3rd update

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ASD-EUROSPACE herewith releases the third update of the Best-Practice Guidance (BPG) for the European Space Sector to comply with SCIP notification (ref. MPTB-ES-GD-0158, available HERE). It follows the progress of SCIP implementation at ECHA, in the EU Member States and by industry.

The update is limited mainly to adding information on national transposition provisions in major ESA Member States and changes of links to reference documents, in particular to the ASD Guide on SCIP (documents now available HERE). It has not led to material changes of the existing recommendations in the BPG. In addition, with addendum of 3 March 2025 the actual entry of the data in IUCLID6 in its latest version has been added for Example 1 and Example 2 (see Annex 4).

Background

As from 5 January 2021 any EU supplier of an article containing REACH Candidate List substances above 0.1% w/w has to provide the information pursuant to REACH Article 33(1) to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). This requirement stems from Article 9(1)(i) of the revised Waste Framework Directive (WFD) 2008/98/EC in association with EU national provisions transposing it. According to WFD Article 9(2) ECHA has established a ‘SCIP’ database for the data to be submitted to it by 5 January 2020, and has provided public access to that database since September 2021.

In anticipation of this requirement – and given the special case of space products which do not result in waste for treatment on Earth/in EU – ASD-EUROSPACE had issued an initial BPG for the European Space Sector to comply with SCIP notification already on 1 October 2020. The BPG was subsequently updated in February 2021 and September 2022, to take into account relevant evolutions in SCIP implementation.

The present 3rd update, just like the previous versions, has been prepared in the frame of the WFD/SCIP Space Task Force, which comprises key participants from space industry and agencies.

Contacts

  • Secretariat: Valentin Marie, Research Analyst & Compliance Manager, ASD-EUROSPACE, valentin.marie@eurospace.org, +33 (0)7 86 58 74 34
  • Task Force coordinator: Tim Becker, Senior Legal Advisor, REACHLaw Ltd., tim.becker@reachlaw.fi; +358 (0)40 773 8143