Documented steps

Confirm the duty. EU producers, assemblers, importers and distributors of articles, and other supply-chain actors placing articles on the EU market, must notify SCIP when a Candidate List substance of very high concern is present above 0.1% w/w. The duty flows from Article 9(1)(i) of Directive 2008/98/EC referencing REACH Article 33(1).
Check the exemption: actors supplying articles directly and exclusively to consumers, such as pure retailers, are outside the notification duty.
Determine whether your product is an article (function derived mainly from shape, surface or design) or a complex object (assembled articles retaining their individual structure), since this drives the dossier structure.
Check upstream data first. If a component already carries a SCIP number from your supplier, reference it rather than re-declaring that component's substance data.
Choose the preparation route: IUCLID Cloud, hosted by ECHA and used through the browser, or IUCLID 6 Desktop/Server on your own infrastructure. Both require an ECHA account.
Build the dossier in ECHA's harmonised IUCLID format for SCIP: article name and identifiers, article category, the Candidate List substance, its concentration range, its location in the article, and safe-use and waste-handling instructions.
Where your information duplicates data already correctly notified upstream for the same article, use the Simplified SCIP Notification instead of a full dossier, referencing the existing SCIP numbers.
Log into the ECHA Submission portal with an ECHA account holding the Submission portal manager role and upload the dossier or Simplified SCIP Notification.
Retrieve the submission report and the assigned SCIP number, and correct and resubmit if the dossier fails completeness or business-rule validation.
Pass the assigned SCIP number to your downstream customers so they can reference it instead of re-notifying your substance data.
Official sources verified 2026-08-03: https://echa.europa.eu/scip-suppliers-of-articles | https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:02008L0098-20180705 | https://echa.europa.eu/tools

Known gotchas

The threshold is 0.1% w/w of a Candidate List substance in the article, assessed per article rather than per finished assembled product. Misclassifying a multi-part product as a single article is the most common structuring error.
Notification has been mandatory since 5 January 2021 for articles placed on the EU market. New Candidate List entries create fresh notification duties on a rolling basis as the list grows, so this is a recurring obligation, not a one-off project.
Retailers supplying exclusively to consumers are exempt, but producers, assemblers, importers and distributors are not.
The Simplified SCIP Notification is only valid when the referenced data has already been correctly notified upstream. It is not a way to avoid disclosing genuinely new content.
ECHA does not validate substance accuracy at submission. Responsibility stays with each duty holder, so upstream errors propagate silently through cross-references.
Submission requires an ECHA account with the Submission portal manager role. A generic ECHA or IUCLID login without that role cannot submit.
ECHA's technical documentation pages are behind a web application firewall that rejects many automated clients. Expect to fetch the IUCLID SCIP format specification and manuals through a normal browser session rather than a script.
A System-to-System submission service exists for automating delivery of IUCLID dossiers, but its endpoint and payload contract could not be verified from official documentation as of 2026-08-03. Request onboarding from ECHA rather than reverse-engineering it.

Prepare and submit an ECHA SCIP notification for an article containing a Candidate List substance above 0.1% w/w, including the Simplified SCIP Notification route

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