CEFIC European Chemical

Chemicals management

Chemicals management

National Chemicals Management Profiles, Priorities and Action Plans

Chemicals management Tourism and the environment

The Lead Sponsors for INFOCAP are IFCS, the European Commission and the European Chemicals Bureau, and UNITAR.

International Conference on Chemicals Management

Policy issues chemicals management

The Board had also included manganese dioxide in the list of controlled chemicals.

Policy issues Chemicals management

Development of a Strategic Approach

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).

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

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

IV Strategic approach to international chemicals management

Despite already high and rising energy prices, Europe s chemical industry has grown at about the same rate as the rest of the economy since 1995. Today, EU chemical companies specialize in high value products, and Europe exports much more of them than it imports.

Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Report of the Second African Regional Consultation on the Development of a Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, SAICM AfRC.2 1 (2005), http www.chem.unep.ch saicm meeting afreg march2005 meetingdocs Salyreport.pdf. United Nations Environment Programme

Management of membership in the European Space Agency (ESA) is the foremost international commitment.

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,

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to international chemicals management

IOMC Inventory of Activities The IOMC Inventory of Activities provides details of the relevant programmes and activities of each IOMC Organization.

(b) Persistent organic pollutants the Inter Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals, the International Programme on Chemical Safety and the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety

(b) Persistent organic pollutants the Inter organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals, the International Programme on Chemical Safety and the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety

to international chemicals management

The IOMC notes with concern that a number of mechanisms are in place to provide information on chemicals management capacity building at the international level.

In the same vein, a National Drug and Food Control Agency had been established in 2002 to regulate chemical precursors, among other things.

Owing to its geographic location, Turkey had been affected by the trafficking of heroin from south western Asia to Europe and of chemical precursors and synthetic drugs from Europe to the Middle East.

(i) Integrated chemicals management, based upon the coordinated and integrated approaches for sound management of chemicals and wastes recommended in chapters 19 and 20 of Agenda 21

Further development of a strategic approach

Further development of a strategic approach

1. Inter Organizational Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals

European Community Profile (Chemicals)

CEFIC European Chemical Industry Council XXXIX(II)

IOMC Calendar of Events The database includes main events organized by IOMC Organizations.

Demand for information on chemicals management capacity building exists, and governments and others have requested that international organizations (such as IOMC Organizations) coordinate to deliver such information (e.g. in IFCS, SAICM concrete measures process, etc.).

Draft resolutions for the International Conference on Chemicals Management

Further development of a strategic approach to international chemicals management

The secretariat has the honour to circulate, in the annex to the present note, a paper submitted by the Inter Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC) on information sources and exchange on capacity building for chemicals management, for the consideration of the Preparatory Committee at its third session.

It should be noted that, in connection with the theme of chemicals management, documents UNEP GCSS.IX 6 and Add.1 contain information on the process for the development of a strategic approach to international chemicals management, as requested by decision 23 9 (Chemicals management), paragraph 12.

In accordance with the Act concerning the educational system, art schools are managed by the Minister of Culture and Art, agriculture and food management schools by the Minister of Agriculture and Food Economy, and medical schools by the Minister of Health and Social Welfare.

Several European countries reported that a new European Union (EU) regulation introducing import controls and strengthening export controls for trade of precursor chemicals between the Union and third countries was currently being discussed at the Council level and would come into effect in 2005.

The establishment of IOMC has strengthened the coordination of activities in chemical assessment and management and reduced the chances of duplication.

Paper submitted by the Inter Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals on ways of monitoring progress in the implementation of the strategic approach to international chemicals management (SAICM), including proposed criteria for a SAICM oversight body

The IOMC assumes that this request was probably based on the premise that SAICM should result in an effective and non duplicative mechanism to facilitate information exchange in the area of chemicals management capacity building.