Poison centre notification in Portugal

Portugal keeps a national alternative open. Hazardous mixtures may be notified through the ECHA Submission portal or directly on the notification platform of the Poison Information Centre (CIAV) at the National Institute of Medical Emergency (INEM), whose current platform went live in January 2021.

Whichever route you use, dossiers are accepted in Portuguese or English and no fee applies. The CIAV platform has one useful extra: each product notified and validated receives a notification certificate (comprovativo de notificação) by email, kept available on the platform. It's evidence you can show a customer or an inspector.

The submission itself is the same in every member state that accepts the ECHA route: a PCN dossier in ECHA’s current format, with the mixture’s UFI, its full composition and its product category. See how to submit a PCN for the process end to end, or compare the 30 countries in the country overview table.