Recital 19

(19)The generic criteria relating to the manufacturing, presence in the final product or output, or placing on the market, of substances that meet the criteria laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ¹⁰ for one of the hazard classes or hazard categories referred to in Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council ¹¹ require reporting undertakings to screen through a very large number of substances, including their presence in all products and outputs of their economic activity. Regulations (EC) No 1272/2008 and (EC) No 1907/2006 require the communication by suppliers of all the necessary data in relation to the presence of those substances on their own and in mixtures and, for substances of very high concern, in articles. There are, however, no legal obligations to provide such information for substances that meet the criteria for one of the hazard classes or hazard categories referred to in Article 57 of Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 if they are present in articles. Collecting information in the supply chain for those substances entails therefore additional burden for reporting undertakings. To avoid such additional administrative burden on reporting undertakings, the horizontal criteria for that group of substances should therefore be removed.