Traduction de «Chemical products in the environment » (Anglais → Français) :

whereas in 2010, over 103 million items of goods, valued in total to EUR 1,11 billion, were seized at the EU’s external borders on suspicion of infringing intellectual property rights (IPR); whereas China is the country of origin for 85 % of these goods; whereas an important feature of intellectual property protection is the correct enforcement of existing laws and international commitments, including statutes on penalties; whereas such goods are frequently produced in facilities that also produce legitimately labelled goods, and are often produced in disregard of both labour law and health and safety requirements and thus pose a dang ...[+++]er to consumers and, in the case of chemicals, to the wider environment;

Projects reducing the impact of chemicals (including nanomaterials and biocidal products) on the environment or human health by a safer or more sustainable use of chemicals or by the minimisation of exposure to toxic chemicals in products or in the environment, through their substitution with safer substances or with non-chemical solutions.

Developing by 2018 a Union strategy for a non-toxic environment that is conducive to innovation and the development of sustainable substitutes including non-chemical solutions, building on horizontal measures to be undertaken by 2015 to ensure: (1) the safety of manufactured nanomaterials and materials with similar properties; (2) the minimisation of exposure to endocrine disruptors; (3) appropriate regulatory approaches to address combination effects of chemicals and (4) the minimisation of exposure to chemicals in ...[+++]products, including, inter alia, imported products, with a view to promoting non-toxic material cycles and reducing indoor exposure to harmful substances;

As regards the actual aims of the Convention, the Council and the interveners therefore refer to the numerous recitals in its preamble mentioning the hazards and harmful impact of chemicals and pesticides on human health and the environment, and to Article 1 thereof, recording the will of the parties to encourage not international trade in such chemicals but the sharing of responsibility and cooperation between the parties in the field of international trade in such products ...[+++] in order to protect human health and the environment against any damage, and to contribute to the environmentally sound use of those products.

Given that no significant quantities of the chemical are expected to reach humans and the environment during the production and use of a closed-system site-limited intermediate, a Party, upon notification to the Secretariat, may allow the production and use of quantities of a chemical listed in this Annex as a closed-system site-limited intermediate that is chemically transformed in the manufacture of other chemicals that, taking into consideration the c ...[+++]riteria in paragraph 1 of Annex D, do not exhibit the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants.

Where, in particular, the draft seeks to limit the marketing or use of a chemical substance, preparation or product on grounds of public health or of the protection of consumers or the environment, Member States shall also forward either a summary or the references of all relevant data relating to the substance, preparation or product concerned and to known and available substitutes, where such information may be available, and communicate the anticipa ...[+++]ted effects of the measure on public health and the protection of the consumer and the environment, together with an analysis of the risk carried out as appropriate in accordance with the general principles for the risk evaluation of chemical substances as referred to in Article 10(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 793/93 (8) in the case of an existing substance or in Article 3(2) of Directive 67/548/EEC (9), in the case of a new substance.