SCIP stands for Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products). The notification obligation has applied since 5 January 2021. Any EU supplier of an article — manufacturer, importer, distributor — must submit a SCIP dossier to ECHA whenever an SVHC from the Candidate List is present above the 0.1% threshold, identifying the article, the substance, its location and safe-use information.
The database makes substance-of-concern data publicly searchable for waste operators and consumers. For a Digital Product Passport, an existing SCIP notification is a ready source of the hazardous-substance data the DPP needs — the same article identity and SVHC concentration can be reused rather than re-collected.
Frequently asked
Who has to submit a SCIP notification?
Any EU supplier of an article that contains an SVHC above 0.1% weight by weight — producers, assemblers, importers and distributors. Retailers supplying only to consumers are exempt, but everyone upstream of them is not.
How is SCIP different from a REACH SVHC declaration?
The SVHC duty under REACH is to communicate safe-use information in the supply chain; SCIP is the specific ECHA database notification mandated by the Waste Framework Directive. Both are triggered by the same 0.1% SVHC presence, but SCIP is a structured dossier submitted to ECHA, not just downstream communication.