New Chemical Substance (NCS) registration in China includes 3 types: Scientific Record Notification, Simplified Registration and Typical Registration.

According to China 《Environmental Management of NCS》，for Typical Registration, ‘Ministry of Environmental Registration shall make Publicity of the Registration before the decision on the Registration is made'; for Scientific Record Notification and Simplified Registration, 'Ministry of Environmental Protection shall make announcement to public at government's website’.

So, Publicity and Public Announcement are very different.

Publicity means a kinds of public hearing, to get opinions and feedback from public, which will be used as basis for the Ministry to decide whether to approve the Registration or not.

Public Announcement means a information to public.

Time-table：

Public Announcement for 'Scientific Record Notification' received by CRC is periodically every 3 months.

Public Announcement for 'Simplified Registration' approved by the Ministry is peridically every 6 months.

Publicity of 'Typical Registration' is basically every 3~4 months, based on whether there are Typical Registrations that have been successfully evaluated by Expert Panel. Public Announcement is planned every 6 months for these 'Typical Registrations' by the Ministry.

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