Apply for confidentiality of data and information
Find out about confidential business information and what protection you can apply for.
Businesses often give us information that, if disclosed, may cause them commercial harm. Businesses can apply for protections under our laws.
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.
This application relates to matters initiated under our former scheme, NICNAS.
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.
Learn about when you can apply for confidential business information for your reported introduction and when you can flag information as confidential.
How to apply for protection of CBI if you are using an accepted international assessment report and you are making a reported introduction.
Circumstances in which you can flag information with us as confidential.
This application relates to matters initiated under AICIS. 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.
This video is a general overview on the framework for protecting CBI under AICIS. Learn about what we publish and what you can have protected from publication, and how.
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