In order to ensure that chemicals data are easily findable in the common data platform and that all relevant data on a specific chemical or material are linked, each chemical or material should be identified by a unique technical identifier and, where possible and available, a chemical notation specifying the molecular structure, taking into account any applicable confidentiality requirements. In order to ensure that chemicals data are interoperable and comparable, and to facilitate their automatic and electronic exchange, the Agencies and the Commission should store chemicals data in appropriate, consistent and interoperable formats and use consistent and interoperable controlled vocabularies. Some Union legal acts listed in Annex I set procedures to establish or make data formats available to the public, in particular for the submission of chemicals data by business operators or Member States. Where such procedures do not exist in the Union legal acts listed in Annex I, the Agencies and the Commission should, where relevant, specify appropriate formats for chemicals data they receive and store, avoiding the use of proprietary standards while, as appropriate, using formats established by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) or other internationally agreed formats, making use of existing formats and ensuring interoperability with existing data submission procedures. When specifying such formats and controlled vocabularies, the Agencies and Commission should, where relevant, take into account input and contributions from Member States and stakeholders.
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