Terms of use for the ChemInfo-system and all connected services and products
may 2025
Disclaimer
The chemical substance data in ChemInfo is compiled and maintained with care by the Federal Environment Agency and the participating federal states and project partners.
Nevertheless, we cannot guarantee the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the data presented. No liability is accepted for any damage resulting from the use of the information retrieved.
Rights of use
The publicly accessible products (online searches ChemInfo public, Pharmaceuticals in the environment,
Biocides in the environment, ETOX: Information system ecotoxicology and environmental quality objectives) and the
app ‘Chemistry in everyday life’ may be used freely by all interested parties.
Free registration is only required for those who wish to use the dossier download or
feedback functions of the online searches.
All other products (ChemInfo internal, quick information on hazardous substances, GSApp, interfaces,
database exports) are subject to authorisation and may only be used in the context of carrying out
sovereign or simply sovereign (public authority) tasks or in the context of official
activities. This requires registration via https://identity.chemikalieninfo.de/Registration/AddUser
and subsequent authorisation check by authorised administrators is required.
The use of all products is free of charge.
Employees of the federal government and the federal states involved in the co-operation have access to all products.
The following federal states are currently part of the ChemInfo cooperation:
- Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Berlin, Hamburg, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia
Authorities or institutions of the federal states
- State authorities, associations or institutions
- municipal authorities or institutions
- Educational institutions such as universities and schools (staff)
- Factory fire departments
User administration is provided by the federal states and authorisation is granted by the federal states once registration has been received.
Factory fire departments
Factory fire departments entrusted with sovereign tasks may also use the services of ChemInfo. All factory fire departments located in the federal federal states involved in the project must obtain a license in accordance with the relevant and use the services and applications of the ChemInfo system in accordance with the relevant state law in the form of a certificate of recognition.
Federal authorities and agencies
- Federal ministries and subordinate federal authorities, e.g:
- German Armed Forces
- German Weather Service
- Federal office for population protection and disaster reflief (BBK)
- Federal police (there is a separate instance of this on the extranet)
- Federal agency for technical relief (THW) and the local offices / local associations
- Research institutions of the Max Planck Society, the Helmholtz Association and the Fraunhofer Society
- and similar
Offices that are managed by the federal or state governments
- Fire departments that have federal vehicles (e.g. Decon-P, CBRN reconnaissance vehicles) from federal states not participating in the cooperation
- Federal associations of public fire departments
- Regional tax offices
- Order of Malta
- International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRI)
- Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe
- Arbeiter-Samariter-Bund
- and similar
If no authorisation is granted by the responsible state, authorisation is granted by the federal government.
GSAapp
The GSApp is the only product that requires approval and may only be used by authorities and organisations with security tasks in emergency operations in all federal states. Use is free of charge and approval is granted exclusively to emergency services by an authorised state administration in the respective federal state.
Usage
The use of the applications and services that can be accessed through the activation is only
permitted in the official environment and use (sovereign and simply sovereign tasks).
To enable the administrators to manage the user accounts, the following data is
queried once a year in accordance with data protection regulations:
- Postal code under which an account is registered
- last login of the account
Individual vs. group account
You are free to create individual user accounts or use a shared account for an organizational unit. Shared accounts should be distinguished from individual accounts by the use of a generic mail address to which all users have access. Group accounts can be used by any number of users at the same time. Where possible, the use of a work/official e-mail address is always preferable. Technically, both forms of access (individual/group account) are identical, but the following should be noted:
- Passing on / sharing personal data is questionable
- If a personal mail address is used, but the account is used by different people, it is only possible for the owner of the mail account to change the password, for example (in the case of the forgotten password function, the account cannot be used until a new password has been set).
- If the owner of the mail address leaves the active service, the entire account is no longer accessible for notifications from us
- Therefore, with a group account, the username should be correspondingly impersonal and the mail address should be accessible to everyone
Demo access
These are accounts to get to know the system, they are only valid for 4 weeks and are automatically
blocked again. At the end of the 4 weeks, the account can be manually reactivated by us if a user authorization is available.
An update of the GSApp and thus the use of the entire database is not possible with a demo access due to data licensing.
This document is a recommendation for action, cannot be complete and will therefore be updated as necessary.