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The central competent authority may disclose the following information after reviewing assessment reports submitted by an applicant:
1. New chemical substance serial number
2. Hazard classification and labelling
3. Physical and chemical properties
4. Toxicological information
5. Safe use information
6. Necessary information disclosures to special personnel required for the purpose of protecting workers safety and health, or emergency measures.
Contents scope subject to subparagraph 6 of the previous paragraph are as follows:
1. Name and basic identification of a new chemical substance;
2. Manufactured or imported quantity of a new chemical substance;
3. The percentage composition of the new chemical substance in a mixture;
4. Manufacture, use and exposure information of a new chemical substance.

A new chemical substance in any one of following circumstances may be announced and included in the announced inventory by the central competent authority.
1. It is full five years after standard registration process is filed and completed.
2. It is full five years after a PLC has been granted under small quantity registration. .
3. The standard registration has been filed through submission of information on hazard assessment and exposure assessment, as specified in Appendix 1, while an application for substance early inclusion on the announced inventory is submitted by the registrant.
4. For a PLC granted under small quantity registration, an application has been made for early inclusion on the announced inventory.

A registrant of a new chemical substance pursuant to the previous article, who meets any one of the following conditions and requests substance name to be kept confidential, shall apply for information protection, three to six months before the substance is included in the announced inventory.
1. The substance name subjected to protection contains business secret of the registrant.
2. The registrant has taken actions and will remain the confidentiality of substance name.
3. The substance name has not been accessed by the third party through reasonable and legitimate approach unless otherwise authorized by the registrant.
A valid period of an approved application pursuant to the previous paragraph is five years.
Three months before the expiration of information protection, the registrant may request extension once for another 5 years.