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Chemicals

Document index

In order to make this index more user-friendly, we have listed our documents according to their subject area, rather than in strict alphabetical order. This should make it easy to find a document without knowing what its title is.

Chemicals Stakeholder Forum

• UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum

Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances

• Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances

Consultations

• Consultation on the 30th amendment to Council Directive 76/69/EEC regarding restrictions on the marketing and use of Perfluorooctane sulphonates (PFOS) - Directive 2006/122/EC (closing date 28 June 2007)
• Consultation on a consolidated approach to the Marketing and Use Directive (closing date 13 October 2006)
• Consultation on a proposal for a Commission Directive on restrictions on the marketing and use of mercury in certain measuring devices (closing 21 July 2006)

Risk assessments

• European Chemicals Bureau - risk assessments website - see the "risk assessments" section

Risk management strategies

• Acrylamide Risk Reduction Strategy (PDF) (250 KB)
• Napthalene Risk Reduction Strategy (PDF) (470 KB)
• Nonylphenol Risk Reduction Strategy (PDF) (640 KB)
• Octabromodiphenylether (PDF) (690 KB)
• Pentabromodiphenylether Risk Reduction Strategy (PDF) (430 KB)
• Perfluorooctane sulphonate Risk Reduction Strategy (PDF) (924 KB)
• SCCPs in leather processing (PDF) (90 KB)

Regulatory impact assessments

• REACH Partial regulatory impact assessment after common position (PDF) (314 KB) - June 2006
• Partial regulatory impact assessment of the EU White Paper "Strategy for a Future Chemicals Policy" (PDF) (175 KB) - May 2001
• Regulatory Impact Assessment: Implementation of the 5th amendment to Annex 1 of the Marketing and Use Directive - Council Directive 76/769/EEC (Pentachlorophenol) - 2001
• Creosote: Regulatory Impact Assessment - 2000

Specific issues

• Lead in Old Paint - Advice
• Environmental Sampling After a Chemical Accident
• Guidance on the Interpretation of Major Accident to the Environment for the Purposes of the COMAH Regulations
• Guidelines for Environmental Risk Assessment and Management: Revised Departmental Guidance
• Guidance for the decontamination of the open environment exposed to chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) substances or materials
• Hormone (Endocrine) Disrupting Substances in the Environment

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Pesticides issues:

Information specifially about pesticides is published by the Pesticides Safety Directorate (PSD)

The Pesticides Forum is now being managed by the Pesticides Safety Directorate.

Some older documents, previously published by the then DETR, are listed here:

• Pesticides - Crop Protection Association Proposals (Summary of Responses)
• Pesticides, Design of a Tax or Charge Scheme for
• The Potential Cost and Effectiveness of Voluntary Measures in Reducing the Environmental Impacts of Pesticides (research report)

Genetic Modification/Biotechnology

Information on GM (Genetic Modification)/Biotechnology is separately indexed.

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Page last modified: 15 June 2007
Page published: 4 December 2002

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