Granting of licenses

• Licensed products are gen­er­ally pro­duced without solvents. Excep­tions are products for the sur­face treat­ment of par­quet, min­er­al floors and resi­li­ent floor cov­er­ings, which may con­tain film-form­ing agents for tech­nic­al reas­ons. If products in Ger­many can be assigned to a GISCODE product group, this must be spe­cified.
• If required by loc­al law, a safety data sheet must be pre­pared for all licensed products. It is recom­men­ded to include the EMICODE®clas­si­fic­a­tion in the tech­nic­al data sheet, e.g. “EMICODE® EC 1 – very low emis­sion”.
• Sub­stances that have been included in the so-called “can­did­ate list” under the European Chem­ic­als Dir­ect­ive REACH (EC 1907/2006) in accord­ance with Art. 57 and Art. 59 (1) must not be act­ively used in EMICODE®-licensed products¹.
• Sub­stances that have been proven under REACH to be car­ci­no­gen­ic, muta­gen­ic or tox­ic to repro­duc­tion (CMR sub­stances of cat­egor­ies 1A and 1B) must not be act­ively used¹. Emis­sions of all volat­ile organ­ic car­ci­no­gen­ic sub­stances of cat­egor­ies 1A and 1B must remain below a total lim­it value of 10 μg/m³ after 3 days and of 1 μg/m³after 28 days.
• Products that have been clas­si­fied into cat­egor­ies 1, 2 or 3 under the European Haz­ard­ous Sub­stances Reg­u­la­tion on account of acute tox­ic prop­er­ties (CLP part 3: 3.1 Acute Tox­icity) are excluded from the EMICODE® licens­ing pro­cess.
• Products that con­tain methyl ethyl ketoxime (MEKO), methyl isobutyl ketoxime (MIBKO) or acet­one oxime, or that release these com­pounds dur­ing the cur­ing pro­cess, are excluded from EMICODE® licens­ing for reas­ons of occu­pa­tion­al safety and odor emis­sion.
  

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  1 For details and excep­tions, see “GEV Clas­si­fic­a­tion Cri­ter­ia”

• Required tests must be con­duc­ted accord­ing to the pre­defined “GEV test meth­od” and per­formed by a labor­at­ory that has been accred­ited for test­ing accord­ing to ISO 17025, includ­ing tests as per GEV test meth­od or EN 16516. Doc­u­ment­a­tion of the test res­ults is car­ried out by the man­u­fac­tur­ers them­selves accord­ing to their in-house sys­tem. Please click here for a list of recom­men­ded labor­at­or­ies.
• Products with identic­al for­mu­la­tions but dif­fer­ent product names require sep­ar­ate licenses, but not a sep­ar­ate emis­sion test.
• For­mu­la­tion changes to licensed products only require a new emis­sion test if these changes affect emis­sions.
• Clas­si­fic­a­tion into EMICODE® classes is based on com­pli­ance with all require­ments lis­ted in the tables provided here. The applic­able EMICODE® class must be used for product labeling.