Joint statement calls for the repeal of the SCIP database
EGMF has joined 28 organisations to call for the repeal of the SCIP database as proposed under the Environmental Omnibus.
The Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products) (SCIP) database costs companies about EUR 225 million a year across all sectors, yet the recyclers it was built for barely use it. The European Commission has acknowledged that waste operators find the data base unusable and in practice, most EU companies lack the resources needed to submit and maintain the millions of notifications required.
The repeal proposed by the Commission in the Environmental Omnibus removes a disproportionate reporting layer on top of existing REACH obligations and delivers immediate, concrete administrative relief that the industry has welcomed.
Signatories of the joint statement, organisations representing a broad range of companies across the value chain, remain committed to transparency on hazardous substances and to reducing their presence in products but five years of reporting show that the database has failed to deliver on its stated core objective: giving recyclers usable information on the substances of very high concern in the waste they treat.
The joint statement asks EU co-legislators to confirm the repeal proposed in the Environmental Omnibus Article 1(2) of proposal 2025/0394 (COD) without any amendment that would delay or dilute it.
