Apply for confidentiality of data and information

Businesses often give us information that, if disclosed, may cause them commercial harm. Businesses can apply for protections under our laws.

If you're introducing a chemical in the reported category and using an acceptable international risk assessment, you can apply for protection of the chemical's name and end use as confidential business information.

Businesses can apply for an AICIS approved chemical name (AACN) to protect the chemical name as confidential business information. They can also apply to use a generalised end use instead of a specific end use.

Circumstances in which you can flag information with us as confidential.

This is a test we use to decide on applications for protection of CBI. As well as considering commercial interest and commercial prejudice, we look at the public interest.

Submit this application if you’ve received a notification that your CBI protection is due for review and you wish to renew it.

This application relates to chemicals assessed before 1 July 2020 that were granted a confidential listing on the Inventory and this confidential status has transitioned to the AICIS Inventory.