Article 8 Repository of reference values

1.   The ECHA shall establish and manage a repository of reference values as part of the common data platform.

2.   Without delay, the ECHA shall include any reference value adopted under Union legal acts listed in Annex I in the repository of reference values.

3.   For reference values not adopted under Union legal acts listed in Annex I, the Agencies holding or establishing reference values as part of their activities under Union legal acts listed in Annex I, Part 1, or the reference values referred to in Annex II shall make those reference values available to the ECHA without delay, in the standard formats provided for in Article 17, where available, and for incorporation in the repository of reference values.

4.   For the purposes of paragraph 3, where reference values are included in a regulatory dossier submitted to the Agencies, the Agencies shall share those reference values in the standard formats with the ECHA without delay once relevant validity and confidentiality assessments have been completed by the originator in accordance with applicable rules.

5.   Without delay, the ECHA shall include in the repository of reference values any reference value it considers relevant that is generated as part of Union, national or international programmes or from research activities and made available to the ECHA in the standard formats as referred to in Article 17, where such a standard format has been developed.

6.   The ECHA shall ensure that the data contained in the repository of reference values are machine readable.