CHEMICAL LEGISLATION FROM 25
COUNTRIES MADE TRANSPARENT
30 September 1998
UN/ECE launches comprehensive
database on CD-ROM
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE)
today launches a database on chemical legislation from 25
countries1 on CD-ROM. The database covers 15 sectors
of the chemical industry, including asbestos, fertilizers,
materials in contact with foodstuffs, transport of dangerous
chemicals, and labelling. Over 600 text summaries are given, with
complete reference to the original acts. The database is
searchable by country, keyword, act reference and date. Acts are
chained as well (so amendments to an act can be found with the
act itself). Summaries and titles are generally provided in the
original language, as well as in English.
The database, which also includes European Community
directives, is intended to provide useful information and
guidelines for countries worldwide that still have little or
no chemical legislation. It will also give manufacturing
companies, trading companies, legislators and lawyers instant
access to information that is normally difficult to obtain. It
should also appeal to institutes studying industrial development,
trade and investment possibilities. The research was undertaken
with assistance from the European Commission.
A major non-tariff barrier to trade in chemical products is
the lack of harmonized legislation in the chemical industry in
various countries. With many countries having very little or no
chemical legislation, numerous problems arise in trade as well as
in the domestic arena. Examples of chemical legislation already
in force in the major industrialized countries can be models for
those countries needing to create effective legislation,
preferably in harmony with existing legislation in other
countries. Such legislation is necessary for improved working
conditions, transportation regulations, labelling of products,
environmental parameters and other factors in the worldwide
chemical industry.
Priced at US$ 250, the CD-ROM may be ordered through the
normal United Nations publications sales agencies or direct
from the United Nations sales offices in New York or Geneva2.
Please quote ISBN number 92-1-100776-3 or sales number
GV.E.98.0.17.
Further information can be obtained from:
Howard Hornfeld
UN/ECE Trade Division
Enterprise Development Programme
Palais des Nations, 429-3
CH - 1211 Geneva 10
Switzerland
Tel: +41 22 917 32 54
Fax: +41 22 917 01 78
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: www.unece.org/indust/chem/htm
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1 Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus,
Belgium, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland,
Germany, Hungary, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russian Federation, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.
2 Sales and Marketing Section or
Sales and Marketing Section
Room DC2-853 Room C-113
2 United Nations Plaza Palais des Nations
New York, N.Y. USA CH - 1211 Geneva 10,
Switzerland
Fax: +1 212 963 3489 Fax: +41 22 917 00 27
E-mail: [email protected] E-mail:
[email protected]