Article 15 — Database of environmental sustainability-related data

1. By 2 January 2032, the ECHA shall establish, as part of the common data platform, a database that contains environmental sustainability-related data and that has functionalities designed in accordance with paragraph 4, which it shall manage. 2. Where the Commission or one of the Agencies hosts or holds environmental sustainability-related data, it shall make those data available to the ECHA without delay for incorporation in the database of environmental sustainability-related data once the Commission or the agency hosting or holding that data has completed, where relevant, validity and confidentiality assessments. In addition, Member States or other parties, including national agencies, research institutes and third country organisations may submit environmental sustainability-related data to the ECHA. The Commission and the Agencies shall provide the necessary technical cooperation to the ECHA to enable such data to be incorporated into the database of environmental sustainability-related data. The ECHA shall provide the necessary support to the Commission and the Agencies to facilitate the incorporation of such data. 3. Where, pursuant to Article 5(6), researchers or research consortia funded by Union framework programmes make any environmental sustainability-related data on chemicals or materials they collect or generate available to the ECHA, the ECHA shall incorporate those data into the database of environmental sustainability-related data. 4. By 2 January 2029, the Commission shall, in consultation with the Member States, design database functionalities and identify existing datasets of chemicals data on environmental sustainability-related data other than data as referred to in paragraph 2. Such data shall be hosted and maintained by the ECHA.