The Swedish Chemicals Agency (KemI) publishes statistics based on data from the KemI products register and pesticides register.
The rules on secrecy are applied differently, depending on how the data on the registers is compiled.
Publication of data from the products register
Publication of data from the products register is subject to the Secrecy Act. As a guide, information that could damage the financial situation of the person supplying it must not be disclosed. Therefore, data supplied by fewer than three companies has not been included in KemI-stat. The same rule applies, for example, to the KemI statistical overview and other data extracted from the products register.
Publication of data from the pesticides register
Data from the pesticides register relating to total quantities of an active substance are not published if the person supplying the data actively requests that it should be kept secret.
Interpretation of results subject to secrecy
If results are subject to secrecy, this may mean that the results of searches on the use of chemical products or substances do not contain complete information.
Since more than 8,000 of the almost 13,000 substances in the products register are to be found in products reported by fewer than three companies, many total quantities of substances cannot be shown. In these cases, KemI-stat is also unable to show the area of use. If data is excluded, it is marked by two dots (..).
The document of approval contains data relating to what industrial categories a pesticide may be sold to or what product type the pesticide belongs to and this information is therefore in the public domain. However, information on how many individual active substances are sold to different industrial categories is not published.
Even in many cases where the total quantity of a substance is published, industrial categories or product types are missing from the results for that substance. This is because data on the use of the substance in a certain product type or industrial category has been supplied by fewer than three companies. The substance is also omitted from tables on substances included in different product types or industrial categories when the "use" search criteria is specified.
