The growing importance of the circular economy and circular business models manifests itself in policies and regulations designed to advance the adoption of circular economy. The European Commission’s new Circular...
Author - Angelika Steinbrecher
How the automotive & electronics industry transitions towards the Circular Economy
In addition to activities of legislative bodies, industry itself has set out on a path towards circular economy, sometimes moving at an even faster pace. The automotive industry is in the midst of an unprecedented...
The Digital Product Passport – a prerequisite for a Circular Economy
The concept of the circular economy is gaining more and more prominence on the agendas of policymakers and industry alike. This is evidenced, e.g., by the new Circular Economy Action Plan of the European Union and a...
New SCIP reporting obligations in the Automotive Industry
With SCIP database being open to submission for one year now and data finally being disseminated as well, demands on how to submit data are increasing. And looking at the data in the dissemination portal it becomes...
German Government clarifies – SCIP Database has to be used to fulfil reporting obligation
The obligation for EU based entities to report data on SVHC containing products to the SCIP database (short for Substances of Concern in articles as such, or in complex objects (products)) has been laid down in Article...
SCIP Dissemination Portal now live
Ever since January 2021, when the reporting of Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) in articles as such and in complex objects to the SCIP database became mandatory for EU based companies, we have all been waiting for...
4 Months of SCIP reporting obligation – what are the experiences so far?
The obligation to report products that are put on the EU market and contain of SVHCs (Substances of Very High Concern) of > 0.1% by weight on article level to ECHA’s SCIP database is now almost 4 months old. So let’s...
SCIP Database Connector successfully used by our customers
Our software solution is already successfully used by our customers from various industries e.g. Healthcare, Electronics, Manufacturing or Automotive. By today our customers have submitted over 75,000 complex article...
SCIP Database – iPoint Compliance automates the exchange of information
>Free Demo Video – SCIP Database Connector Watch the video to hear about the latest updates on ECHA SCIP database and see a live demo of iPoint’s SCIP Database Connector. > Watch the SCIP Demo video...
EU Commission not empowered to postpone SCIP
On September 21, 2020, 40 EU and non-EU industry associations asked the European Commission to postpone the date for suppliers to start fulfilling their obligation of submitting information to the SCIP database beyond 5...