Many countries have unidentified quantities of unwanted chemicals, chemicals that are poorly stored, chemicals that require repackaging and chemicals that await final disposal and destruction.

To ensure that knowledge and information on chemicals and chemicals management is sufficient to enable chemicals to be dealt with safely throughout their life cycle by all stakeholders To ensure that, for all stakeholders,

22 4 Chemicals III Lead (subprogrammes 2 and 4)

22 4 Chemicals

National Chemicals Management Profiles, Priorities and Action Plans

The decision guidance document is prepared by the Chemical Review Committee (CRC).

Review of the Concise International Chemical Assessment Documents (ICADS), the WHO Recommended Classification of Pesticides by Hazard,20 and the International Chemical Safety Cards

NICNAS (1999) Chrysotile asbestos priority existing chemical no. 9 full public report. Sydney, National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme.

Chemicals management

C Industrial chemicals

Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy.

The Chemical Review Committee will decide whether to make a recommendation to include the chemical in Annex III of the Convention.

Of the four chemicals concerned, two are currently not subject to the prior informed consent procedure.

(a) The chemicals in the business's possession, the products in the manufacture of which they are used, the quantities sold and the buyers thereof

The SAICM development process has been convened jointly by UNEP, the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS) and the Inter Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC).

Regarding the listing of chemicals in Annex III, as set out in Article 7, for each chemical that the Chemical Review Committee has decided to recommend for listing in Annex III, a draft decision guidance document is to be prepared.

Of the 201 chemicals concerned, 160 are currently not subject to the prior informed consent procedure.

CEFIC European Chemical

Chemical Review Committee

Chemicals management Tourism and the environment

I, resolution 2, annex.

Availability, costs and efficacy effectiveness of alternatives, chemical and non chemical

If the Party decides not to consent to the import of a chemical or to consent to its import only under specified conditions, the Party is required to simultaneously prohibit, or make subject to the same condition, import of the chemical from any source and domestic production of the chemical for domestic use.

E. Processing information regarding the removal of chemicals and forwarding it to the Chemical Review Committee (article 9)

International Conference on Chemicals Management

CP Pesticides, industrial chemicals

Environmental, economic, social, health and labour aspects of chemical safety, Agricultural and industrial chemicals,

The provisions of Article 13 address the information to accompany exported chemicals, including specific Harmonized System customs codes to be assigned by the World Customs Organization (WCO) to the individual chemicals or groups of chemicals listed in Annex III, labelling requirements for chemicals listed in Annex III and chemicals banned or severely restricted to be exported, and providing each importer with a safety data sheet of such chemicals to be used for occupational purposes.

Chemical Association (ICCA)

(a) Achieving higher, sustained and equitable economic growth

E. Listing of chemicals in Annex III

Decision guidance documents for chemicals notified as banned or severely restricted in accordance with Article 5

To be meaningful, the Strategic Approach must be a new approach to global efforts to advance the sound management of chemicals.

To the extent that the criteria contained in Annex II are applied by the Chemical Review Committee for consideration of the listing or removal of banned or severely restricted chemicals, the Chemical Review Committee needs to take into account, among other points, whether there is evidence of ongoing international trade in the chemicals.

As at 30 April 2005, there were two new candidate chemicals for consideration by the Chemical Review Committee at its second meeting.

Policy issues Chemicals management

Development of a Strategic Approach

Chemical Technical Options Committee

J. Information to accompany exported chemicals

Addressing the Widening Gap

While knowledge, information and public awareness are basic needs for decision making for the sound management of chemicals, including products and articles containing chemicals, it is recognized that

The IOMC (Inter Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals) is actively participating in the SAICM development process.

However, inclusion does not imply that all Parties to the Convention have banned or severely restricted this chemical.

The document also presents background information on the development of INFOCAP.

Implementation of the Convention