Today Citation Technologies made a bold corporate move.  Our signature regulatory research product, CyberRegs® was sold to IHS, a leading source of information, insight, and analytics.

Citation and IHS have had a long and fruitful relationship in the areas of regulatory information and standards.  The sale of CyberRegs to IHS will enhance the delivery of regulatory content to their customers.

With the sale, Citation Technologies is now free to fully focus all of its resources on continuing to build and enhance its compliance management product, the Compliance Suite (formerly ART). 

Citation has seen phenomenal interest in the product line and has been asked to consider many additions to current functionality and scope.

To our current customers using ART, now called Compliance Suite Build, there will be very little change, if any. 

A Build customer working in a U.S. jurisdiction will soon use new functionality to view the full text of the requirement as part of the ART review process. 

Those customers who are using CyberRegs Determine, which was more linked to CyberRegs itself, will be given a free upgrade to ART, now called Citation Build, for the duration of their subscription. 

By focusing the whole company on compliance management, our mindset will not be distracted as it sometimes was with the broader product mix. 

Our IT developers will not need to build and maintain separate platforms, our editors will be more closely linked with our analysts and our marketing and sales efforts will be fixated singularly on compliance management.  

Product Management has a whole series of new applications, functionality enhancements to existing customers, scope expansions and other exciting approaches now being placed on the drawing boards.

As we realign ourselves to best use our resources, please be patient with us in the short term, but feel confident that in the long term we will have available the best application suite for assisting in the decision-making and management of regulatory compliance.

Citation Technologies is more committed than ever to giving you the absolute highest quality and best service in helping you with your compliance assurance needs.  Watch this space to keep you informed as we solidify our plans and approaches.

How ART Notifications Work

 The US EPA warned in August of upcoming changes to the way it collects information from commercial chemical manufacturers, adding the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule. Published in the Federal Register on August 16 as 40 CFR 711, the new rule went into effect on September 15.

The CDR rule, which replaced the Inventory Update Reporting rule, enables the EPA to collect and publish information on the manufacturing, processing and use of commercial chemicals on the Toxic Substances Control Act's (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory. The main points of the CDR include more frequent reporting, reduced reporting thresholds for specific chemicals, new exemptions, and new reporting requirements.

Under TSCA, failure to maintain required records or to report the required information can result in civil penalties of up to $25,000 a day as well as criminal fines and imprisonment. Users of Citation's CyberRegs could have found the new CFR material the day it was released, and might have even received email notification that 40 CFR 711 had changed. But unless they were following closely, they might have missed the specific changes pertaining to their practices and procedures.

ART users not only received an automatic email notification that relevant changes were made in the company's ART Review, but they were given specific changes in eight Detailed Requirements. They would have not only known that previously written compliance tasks for the replaced Inventory Update Reporting rule were outdated, but they would have realized immediately how they needed to alter their reporting thresholds or frequency, or if they received a new exemption.

Citation's regulatory analysts would have done the leg work for them, providing them specific citations to the material that contained the necessary compliance actions. For example, the Detailed Requirement for 40 CFR 711.20 tells users they must "File reports during applicable submission periods" and 40 CFR 711.35 tells users to "Submit reports electronically pursuant to requirements."

The ART notifications contain the citation and full text of the rule that was changed. Users simply have to look up the citations and make the necessary changes within their compliance matrix. In this manner, the company will always be in compliance with the standards of the federal government.