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Baltic
States Regional Projects on Chemicals Control
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Chemicals are applied in a great variety of products
and industrial processes: several ten-thousands of chemical substances
and several 100-thousands of chemical products are traded and used
on the European market. Many of them are hazardous, therefore working
with chemicals needs responsible care at each step on the chain of
supply. Everyone importing, producing, distributing and using chemicals
should therefore be i) fully informed of the hazardous properties,
ii) have a defined responsibility and iii) should be capable to handle
and/or further distribute the chemical in a safe way. These are important
prerequisites to keep chemicals under control. |
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The Baltic Regional Projects on Chemicals Control are
meant to support Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in the process of accession
to the European Union in the field of Chemicals Control. The overall
objectives are |
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- to strengthen information exchange and co-operation among the
three Baltic States and between the Baltic States and its EU neighbours
- to increase knowledge on EU requirements with regard to chemicals
control and to develop management capacity in enterprises producing
or using chemical products
- to develop strategies how the state authorities could efficiently
obtain data on the flows and use of chemicals on the national
markets in order to develop their national chemicals policy
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The program has been started in 1998 and will be finished by summer
2003. It presently covers four sub-projects and involves several
local co-operation partners:
- Workshop program on implementation of EU Chemicals Legislation,
for state authorities
- Training program on Classification and Labelling of Dangerous
Chemicals including Safety Data Sheets, for industry managers
and industry experts
- Development of data collection strategies and instruments on
use and flows of chemicals on the national markets, in co-operation
with the responsible state authorities in the three Baltic States
- Capacity building on integrated chemicals risk management in
certain industry sectors (manufacturers of chemical products,
textile processing, metal processing, manufacture of furniture),
in co-operation with 10 to 15 selected industry companies
The project funds are based on contributions from Estonia, Denmark,
Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Nordic Council of Ministers,
the German Bundesland Schleswig-Holstein, Sweden.
Project development and implementation is a joint effort of Ökopol
and the Baltic Environmental Forum in Riga (BEF). For further information
please have a look at BEF's
homepage.
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