In IUCLID, a Legal entity site is a specific element to enter information related to the location of the production and/or use sites of one Legal entity. This information includes the name, the address and other contact details of the site, site-specific identification numbers that may be useful for internal management for e.g. making the link with other Company/Organisation IT systems. It also indicates the official Legal entity to which the site belongs (see chapter D.9.4 Linking a Legal entity to a Substance, Mixture, Category, Template or Site).

You may need to report the same site information multiple times in a number of Substance or Mixture datasets. In IUCLID, this is facilitated by the storage and the management of all Legal entity site information in a local inventory, offering the possibility to enter the information only once in the database and re-use it as often as necessary.

When you need to specify the location of your production and/or use site for a particular Substance or Mixture, you will be prompted by the system to select its name in a list. This operation automatically creates a link to the Legal entity site you have stored in the inventory in a previous step (see chapter D.10.4 Linking a Legal entity site to a Substance/Mixture dataset).

With this principle, the Legal entity site is managed independently from the variety of Substance and Mixture datasets it may be associated to. If a change is done in any of the fields of the site, it will affect all associated datasets.

A Legal entity site belongs to one Legal entity only, named the Legal entity owner. It shall be an official Legal entity (i.e. originating from the IUCLID web site) previously assigned to your user account (see chapter D.16.1 Principles of administration tools for user settings). The link between the Legal entity and the site is created by indicating the name of the Legal entity when prompted by the system in the creation wizard of the site. It is not possible to create a site without linking it to one Legal entity (see chapter D.10.4 Linking a Legal entity site to a Substance/Mixture dataset).

It is possible to modify the link between a site and its Legal entity owner by selecting another Legal entity name.