In 2006-07, 167 chemicals fell due for AICS listing on the basis of new chemical certificates issued five years earlier. For 24 of these, notifiers sought listing on the confidential section of the AICS. In considering the case for confidential listing, the Director must weigh commercial against public interest. NICNAS’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) provided advice to the Director on this process (see Appendix 08).

Technical Advisory Group (TAG) members, 20 June 2007
(L to R): Mr James Smith, Dr Marion Healy, Professor Ian Rae, Professor Graham Johnston, Mr Nick Walton, Mr Subrata Bhattacharyya, Mr Lewis Norman, Ms Rebecca Alderton

Absent: Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith

Sixteen of the 24 applications were granted confidential listing by the Director and there are four pending applications. Three-year trends in outcomes for confidential listing applications are shown in Table 17.

Table 17: Outcomes of decisions for confidential listing on the AICS over four years

	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07
Public	4	0	0	1	4
Confidential	9	15	7	25	16
Pending	4	0	3	7	4