The Regulation EC No. 1272/2008 otherwise known as CLP Regulation, is an EU law that sets the rules for classifying, labelling, and packaging chemical substances and mixtures to protect human safety and environmental health and sustainability. These requirements are found in every SAP EHS introduction with topics aligning to SDS authoring. It aligns the EU system with the United Nations’ Globally Harmonised System (GHS) and requires companies to appropriately classify, label appropriately, and package hazardous chemicals before placing them on the market. Apparently, according to REGULATION (EC) No 1272/2008 in the EU and in other legislations worldwide some properties must be mentioned on the SDS even if there is no data available. There are further cases where a value is not applicable for a corresponding property because such value will never be available. E.g. a pH-Value for Helium or Gold falls in this category.
Filling Empty Endpoints is a new SAP EHS ruleset we configure to address present ruleset which will fill the blank spaces in data base according to the “state of matter” of the specification. Physical properties are characteristics that can be observed or measured without changing the identity or composition of the substance. Chemical properties are abilities of a substance to combine with or change into one or more other substances. In general several chemical and physical properties, as fixed volume and shape, will be given or not dependent on the physical state or “state of matter”.
Basically , the filling empty endpoints ruleset is mainly to support data maintenance .It checks if a property is filled with data and writes a phrase to the Remarks characteristic if neither data nor remark is set in the database. Furthermore the newly written instance may be restricted in the validity area. Specific combinations are pre-configured via Config-table according to the needs of the data maintenance and each entry.