C&L Notifications: from 1st July 2026 the name of the notifier becomes public

Starting from 1st July 2026, with the application of Article 42 of the revised CLP Regulation, the name of each notifier who has submitted a classification and labelling (C&L) notification to ECHA will be made publicly available in the C&L Inventory.

The provision does not concern only new notifications , but it also applies to all already existing C&L notifications.

The CLP Regulation allows companies to request confidentiality of the name of the notifier if its publication could harm the commercial interests of the notifier itself or of another interested party.

The confidentiality request is not automatic and must be duly justified. ECHA will assess the validity of the request based on the information provided in the notification dossier.

The request for confidentiality of the notifier’s name must be made directly in the C&L notification dossier prepared in IUCLID.

The request may be submitted by those sending a new notification as well as by those who have already sent C&L notifications. In the latter case, it will be possible to request confidentiality through an update to the notification by 30th June 2026.

With the entry into force of the new provisions of the CLP Regulation, transparency of C&L notifications will increase significantly. Companies are therefore called to:

• check C&L notifications already submitted;
• assess whether publication of their own name may entail commercial risks;
• prepare in good time any confidentiality requests. A preventive analysis of C&L notifications enables companies to consciously manage transparency obligations, reducing the risk of unwanted exposure from 1st July 2026