In order to increase transparency, as well as to enable Authorities to have complete prior knowledge of studies commissioned by business operators, irrespective of whether such studies are carried out by the business operators themselves or are outsourced, business operators and laboratories should notify to a database of study notifications established and managed by the ECHA the studies on chemicals they commission for compliance with regulatory requirements under the Union legal acts listed in Annex I, Part 1. The ECHA should establish and manage a database of study notifications, separate from the common data platform. That database should be used to store information related to those studies and that information should be kept confidential. Authorities and national enforcement authorities should have access to the database while ensuring safe transmission of data contained in it. In order to allow business operators and laboratories sufficient time to prepare study notifications, the obligation to notify studies should start to apply only 22 months after the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
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