The European chemical Substances Information System (ESIS) was a chemoinformatics

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that stored information system on

chemicals A chemical substance is a form of matter having constant chemical composition and characteristic properties. Some references add that chemical substance cannot be separated into its constituent elements by physical separation methods, i.e., wit ...

of the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational union, supranational political union, political and economic union of Member state of the European Union, member states that are located primarily in Europe, Europe. The union has a total area of ...

. It was created by the former

European Chemicals Bureau The European Chemicals Bureau (ECB) was the focal point for the data and assessment procedure on dangerous chemicals within the European Union (EU). The ECB was located in Ispra, Italy, within the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commis ...

, which completed its mandate in 2008, in the year 2003. ESIS was set up by the

Joint Research Centre The Joint Research Centre (JRC) is the European Commission's science and knowledge service which employs scientists to carry out research in order to provide independent scientific advice and support to European Union (EU) policy. The JRC is ...

of the

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in order to make data on the safety of chemicals more readily accessible to the public, offering a single search tool on chemicals and the legislation under which they are presently covered. By October 3, 2013, ESIS contained 14,897 substance records.Databases currently participating in eChemPortal
/ref> ESIS provided access to several registers and lists, shown below: * EINECS (European Inventory of Existing Commercial chemical Substances) * NLP (No-Longer Polymers) * BPD ( Biocidal Products Directive) * Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals The following databases were originally part of ESIS, but have been taken over by the

European Chemicals Agency The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; ) is an agency of the European Union which manages the technical and administrative aspects of the implementation of the European Union regulation called Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restricti ...

(ECHA), which will also ensure further updates: * ELINCS ( European List of Notified Chemical Substances) * PBT ( Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic) * C&L (Classification and Labelling) * HPVCs (High Production Volume Chemicals) and LPVCs (Low Production Volume Chemicals) *

IUCLID IUCLID (; International Uniform Chemical Information Database) is a software application to capture, store, maintain and exchange data on intrinsic and hazard properties of chemical substances. Distributed free of charge, the software is especially ...

Chemical Data Sheets * Priority Lists,

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process and tracking system

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— Note: ESIS information system has been discontinued (since 17 November 2014). Cheminformatics Government databases of the European Union Regulation of chemicals in the European Union