A draft is an unfinished chemical notification that is only visible to the company itself. Once the chemical notification has been published, it is visible to the company, the authorities and other users, based on what the notifier has chosen as the notification’s publicity level. (The publicity level means the notification’s visibility to users of the system.)
When opening an already published chemical notification for editing, it should be noted that the published version is still visible to other users, while the new draft of the notification is only visible to the company. The new version of the notification becomes public after the new draft has been published. At the same time, the previous published version is moved to the notification’s version history.
Only the latest published version of the chemical notification is visible to other users and can be selected for a list of chemicals. However, old versions remain in the database in the version history of the chemical notification and are visible to the authorities and the company. If another company has in its list of chemicals a chemical notification for which a new version is published, a notice will appear on the list indicating that a newer version of the chemical notification is available.