Distributed free of charge, the software is especially useful to chemical industry companies and to government authorities.
[3] 2000: IUCLID is the software prescribed in the EU Biocides legislation to notify existing active substances (Art.
These included chemical industry companies, EU Member State Competent Authorities, the OECD Secretariat, the US EPA, the Japan METI, and third-party service providers.
In 2003, when it became clear that the REACH proposal would be adopted by the European Union, the European Commission decided to completely overhaul IUCLID 4 and to create a new version, IUCLID 5, which would be used by chemical industry companies to fulfill their data submission obligations under REACH.
Anyone can use a local IUCLID 5 installation to collect, store, maintain and exchange relevant data on chemical substances.
The European Commission IUCLID project team and international authorities are currently in deliberation in order to further promote acceptance of IUCLID5 data in non-REACH jurisdictions.
It features a Java Swing graphical user interface (GUI) and can be deployed on both single workstation and distributed environments.