• Aggregates and dredging
• Fisheries Science Partnership
• Offshore Chemical Notification Scheme
  • About OCNS
  • Contact OCNS
  • Guide to chemical registration
  • OCNS ecotoxicology testing
  • Hazard assessment
  • Substitution warning
  • Freqently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  • Downloads and useful links
• Returning tagged fish and shellfish

Downloads and useful links

OCNS and OSPAR documents, forms and guidelines

1. Definitive Ranked Lists of Registered Products, Excel format (ZIP, 369.58 KB, updated 31 January 2012)
2. Generic templates: PDF file containing generic templates to cover chemicals that are generated in situ on offshore installations
   • Sodium hypochlorite with copper ions (PDF, 31 KB)
   • Sodium hypochlorite (PDF, 96 KB)
   • Chlorine dioxide (PDF, 96 KB)
3. Criteria for accepting alternative toxicity data to support an HOCNF application (PDF, 13.9 KB)
   This downloadable file gives the criteria that data must meet in order for it to be acceptable under the Offshore Chemical Notification Scheme.
4. Netherlands OCNS Protocol
   • Netherlands OCNS Protocol Part 1 (PDF, 738 KB, updated 10 October  2011)
   • Netherlands OCNS Protocol Part 2 (PDF, 225 KB, updated 10 October 2011)
   • Bioconcentration Factors of Surfactants (PDF, 421 KB)
5. OSPAR documents
   • OSPAR List of chemicals for priority action
   • OSPAR List of substances of possible concern
   • Guidelines for completing the Harmonised Offshore Chemical Notification Format (HOCNF)
   • Blank HOCNF form (Word, 238 KB) 

Useful web links

• OSPAR: Oslo and Paris Commission
• UK: Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC)
• UK: Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS)
• Marine Scotland
• Netherlands: State Supervision of Mines (SSM)
• Association of Oil and Gas Producers
  The official version of the CHARM model can be downloaded (free of charge) from this website. Follow this path: Publications > Non-OGP publications
• Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) 
  Includes OECD guidelines for the testing of chemicals
• European Oilfield Speciality Chemicals Association
• Health and Safety Executive
  Contains useful information about the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH)