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Confidential business information in IUCLID
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IUCLID allows you to flag certain information as confidential business information (CBI). This helps protect commercially sensitive information while still allowing AICIS to assess your application.
How AICIS handles confidential information is governed by our assessment certificate confidentiality and publication requirements. These determine what information can be treated as confidential and what can be published.
Learn more about confidentiality in assessment certificate applications
How CBI works in IUCLID
You can flag confidential information at different levels, depending on the field or document:
- individual fields (where CBI is permitted)
- entire documents
- regulatory use (by jurisdiction)
Not all fields allow CBI flagging. You must follow the guidance in each section to determine where CBI can be applied.
How to flag CBI
Where CBI flagging is available:
- select the CBI or regulatory use flags at the top left of the document or field
- complete any required justification. Make sure your justification aligns with our confidentiality requirements for assessment certificate applications.
You must clearly explain why the information is confidential. We may request more information if the justification is not sufficient. Adding regulatory use restriction allows you to specify how the information may be used across jurisdictions. For example, this may apply where data is only authorised for use in a particular regulatory context or is subject to access or ownership limitations.
Important points to note
- Flagging information as CBI does not remove the requirement to provide it to AICIS.
- Some information cannot be flagged as confidential because it is required for assessment or publication.
- AICIS will assess all CBI claims and may reject them if justification is insufficient.
- All CBI is handled in accordance with AICIS confidentiality and publication requirements.
Using CBI in your application
When preparing your dataset:
- only flag information as confidential where appropriate
- provide clear and specific justification
- follow section-specific guidance on what can and cannot be flagged.