Traduction de «Common hazard » (Anglais → Français) :

(Return tabled) Question No. 845 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to children’s health and the environment: (a) what action has the government undertaken to integrate children’s environmental health into existing public health programs; (b) what specific action is the government undertaking to advocate for the consideration and assessment of hazardous environmental influences on children’s health and development, (i) in Canada, (ii) internationally; (c) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise the political profile of children’s environmental health, (i) locally, (ii) regionally, (iii) nationally; (d) in relation to its contaminated sites, (i) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise awareness about ch ...[+++]ildren’s environmental health, (ii) what are all contaminated sites where action has been taken to raise awareness, (iii) what was the risk; (iv) what was the action taken; (e) what are all government activities focused on children’s environmental health; (f) what are all existing government activities focused on prevention of environmental exposures aimed at protecting children's health; (g) what governmental action has been undertaken to prevent (i) pre-conception, prenatal, and childhood exposures, (ii) air, consumer products, food, soil/dust, water, and other physical environmental exposures, (iii) biological, chemical, and physical hazards; (h) how has the government taken children's vulnerabilities into account in developing environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards; (i) what targeted environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards have already been put in place to protect children's health, and what policies, regulations, and standards are currently under consideration; (j) what action is being undertaken by the government to measure the extent to which pregnant women and their babies are exposed to common environmental chemicals, and what health risks, if any, are associated with th ...

Exports of hazardous chemicals that are banned or severely restricted within the Union should continue to be subject to a common export notification procedure.

The common names or, in the case of dangerous substances covered by Part 1 of Annex I, the generic names or the hazard classification of the relevant dangerous substances involved at the establishment which could give rise to a major accident, with an indication of their principal dangerous characteristics in simple terms.

(23) Since the objectives of the action to be taken, namely to establish restrictions on the use of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore be better achieved at Community level by reason of the scale of the problem and its implications in respect of other Community legislation on recovery and disposal of waste and areas of common interest, such as human health protection, the Community may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of sub ...[+++]sidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty.

The range of 300 to 700 nm covers parts of UVB, all UVA and most of visible radiation; however, the associated hazard is commonly referred to as ‘blue light’ hazard.

Hazardous waste Following the political agreement reached at the Environment meeting on 2, 3 and 15 December 1993, the Council adopted the common position on the amendment of Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste. The aim of this proposal is to amend the date of implementation of Directive 91/689/EEC on hazardous waste and the date of repeal of Directive 78/318/EEC on toxic and dangerous waste in order to deal with the practical and legal difficulties caused by the fact that the list of hazardous waste provided for in Directive 91/689/EEC is not available.