When a chemical is removed from the market, the notifier inactivates the chemical notification. The inactivated notification remains in the system and is visible to the company itself and the authorities in the inactivated status.
If an inactivated notification is part of another company’s list of chemicals, it remains on the list (the status changes to inactivated). A chemical may still be in use by other companies after e.g. the importer has stopped placing the chemical on the market. However, an inactivated notification is no longer visible to other companies when they create a list of chemicals (meaning that they cannot select inactivated notifications in their list).