On 10 Aug 2017, China MEP issued statistics on China new chemical substance notification (China NCSN). There were 70 regular notifications, 1290 simplified notifications and 14 applications for modification of registration certificate information approved in the first half of 2017.
1. Regular Notification
Based on the regular notification data collected, the details are specified as below:
Table 1. Regular Notification Statistics
| Regular notification type | Number |
| General Regular Notification | 40 |
| Joint Notification | 17 |
| Re-notification for the Increased Tonnage Band | 3 |
| Repeated Notification | 7 |
| Repeated Notification for Increased Tonnage Band | 2 |
| Repeated Joint Notification | 1 |
| In total | 70 |
2. Simplified Notification
As for Simplified Notification, in total 1290 simplified notifications have been approved in the first half of 2017, of which 265 were notified through general case of simplified notification and 1025 were notified through special case of simplified notification. For details of the special cases, please refer to China NCSN Chempedia.
Table 2. Simplified Notification Statistics
| SN Type | Number |
| General Case | 265 |
| Intermediate | 14 |
| Manufacture for Export Only | 25 |
| Polymers of Low Concern | 154 |
| New Chemical Substance Monomer<2% | 742 |
| Scientific Research | 15 |
| PPORD | 75 |
| In Total | 1290 |
3. Scientific Research Record Notification
For scientific research record notifications, the statistics haven’t been published.
4. Certificate Modification
In addition, from Jan to Jun of 2017, China MEP approved 14 applications for modification of registration certificate information involving modification of notifying company, certificate holder, amount of manufacture/import, etc.
Please click here to see China new chemical notification statistics from 2011
