Brazilian Experience on the Implementation of the Globally Harmonized System for Classification and

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Brazilian Experience on the Implementation of the
Globally Harmonized System for Classification and
Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)
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PRESENTATION OVERVIEW
1 Background 2 International Landmarks 3
National Commission on Chemical Safety - CONASQ 4
Set up GT-GHS Brazil 5 Developed Activities -
2002 6 GHS Brazil Webpage Construction 7 -
Activities 2003/2004 8 - Activities 2005 9
Future Actions 10 Prospects
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1 - Background

• 1998 International Labour Organization (ILO)
  Convention 170 - Ratification (Safety Chemicals
  Use at Workplaces)
• 1998 to 2001 ILO Working Group on Hazard
  Communication participation by Labour Ministry
  and FUNDACENTRO
• 2001 to 2005 Vice-Chair of the Sub-Committee of
  Experts for the Classification and Labelling of
  Chemicals - ECOSOC

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2 International Landmarks
1992 - AGENDA 21 Rio de Janeiro - BRAZIL - GHS
Agenda 21 Chapter 19 Programatic Area
B Oct 2000 IFCS FORUM III Salvador -
BRAZIL - Bahia Declaration GHS fully
operational by 2008 - Priorities of Action beyond
2000 2002 - RIO 10 Johanesburg SOUTH
AFRICA - Plan of Implementation Art. 22 Nov
2003 IFCS FORUM IV Bangkok - THAILAND - GHS
Dinner Workshop Brazil/UNITAR/GTZ - GHS
Document approved
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3 National Commission on Chemical Safety -
CONASQ

• Set up by the Ministerial Ordinance N º 319 de
  27/Dec/2000 - COPASQ
• Changed by Ministerial Ordinance Nº 352 de
  Aug/2003 - CONASQ
• Objective chemical safety inter-institutional
  articulation and development
• National Programme on Chemical Safety
  Implementation PRONASQ 10 action lines
• Participants 22 institutions (government and
  civil society)
• Chair Ministry of Environment
• Vice-Chair Ministry of Health

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PRONASQ National Programme on Chemical Safety

• Control and Fiscalization Mechanisms to Chemicals
  Management
• Information Exchange Network on Chemical Safety
• Vulnerability Reduction by Chemical Accidentes
• Contaminated Areas
• Globally Harmonized System for the Classification
  and Labelling of Chemicals

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PRONASQNational Programme on Chemical
Safety(Cont.)

• Chemical Safety in the Universities and Research
  Institutions
• International Conventions Implementation
  (Stockolm, Rotterdam)
• Pest and Vectors Integrated Management
• Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR)
• National Profile on Chemicals Management

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4 Set up of WG-GHS Brazil

• Started in 2001
• GHS Subgrup on the National Commission on
  Chemical Safety - CONASQ
• Priority Action GHS Implementation
• Chair Ministry of Development, Industry and
  Foreign Trade
• Vice-Chair Ministry of Labour
• Other Important stakeholders
• Ministry of Health, ABIQUIM, INMETRO,
  ABIPHEC, ASSOCIQUIM, SBTOX, FUNDACENTRO, Civil
  Society Organizations, Work Unions

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Participants at WG-GHS in 2001

• Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign
  Trade
• Ministry of Labour
• INMETRO
• Ministry of Science and Techonology
• Customs Agency
• Petrobrás
• SITICESP/SP
• Environment Brazilian Institute
• Ministry of Environment
• ABIQUIM
• 3M
• Bayer

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Intitutions Participants GT-GHS in 2004
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5 Developed Activities - 2002

• Five meetings
• WG-GHS Brazil and WG-GHS Latin America electronic
  groups
• National Workshop - São Paulo, November 2002
• Brazilian GHS Implementation Preliminary Study
  developed by ABIQUIM
• (state of the art, dificulties and challenges)
• GHS Brazil webpage construction
• GHS survey

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6 Webpages Construction

• 2002
• Meetings Report, Workshops Documents, Seminars,
  Updated Information, Links
• Hosted by the Ministry of Development, Industry
  and Foreign Trade
• http//www.desenvolvimento.gov.br/sitio/secex/negI
  nternacionais/claRotSubQuimicas/oquee.
• php

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7 Activities 2003/2004

• Five annual meetings
• Set up of Sub-groups
• Glossary
• Training
• Laboratories
• Legislation
• Hazardous Waste
• Terms of Reference
• Project on the Implementation of the GHS
• Development of a Workshop on Laboratories
• (sept 2004)
• Presentations about the GHS in Seminars,
  Congress, Workshops
• South American Sub-regional Workshop on Chemical
  Hazard Communication and GHS Implementation 
• 29 November 2 December 2004 in São Paulo,
  Brazil (UNITAR/GTZ)

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8 Activities 2005

• January Workshop about Hazard Communication
  (GHS) and Chemical Accidents - V World Social
  Forum Porto Alegre Brazil
• March First meeting of the year
• Development of the Programme of activities 2005
• Meeting of the Sub-Group Laboratories for the
  plan of activities 2005
• Organization of a Plenary and short course about
  the GHS in the Brazilian Toxicology Congress
  (October 2005)

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9 Future Actions

• Continuity and participation of additional
  Brazilian institutions in the sessions of the
  Sub-Commitee of the GHS/ECOSOC/Geneva and the
  OECD/GHS Task Force
• Meeting with the Pesticide Sector
• Development of One Week Training Course on the
  GHS
• Voluntary Agreement by the stakeholders for the
  GHS implementation
• Disseminate GHS information through publication
  (leaflets, booklets, folders,...)

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9 Future Actions

• Legal National Framework Studies related to the
  GHS
• Capacity building development for laboratories
  staff
• Raise Funds and Resources to Implement the GHS
  National Project (National and International
  donors institutions)

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9 Future Actions

• Mobilization and training of stakeholders trade
  unions, industry, government, university,
  consumers, ...
• Sectorial studies on the GHS implementation
  (health, labour, trade, environment, transport,
  pesticides, ...)
• Raising awareness workshops
• Purple Book Translation to Portuguese
• National or Sub-Regional Seminars on Hazardous
  Waste

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10 Propects

• Development of Technical Cooperation Agreements
  at National or International levels
• Support by the international donnors for the
  Brazilian National Project on the GHS
  implementation (World Bank, GEF, GTZ, CIDA, ...)
• Development of Technical Cooperation with the
  Portuguese Speaking Countries
• Strengtening the activities already taking place
  by the Brazilian WG-GHS throughout international
  partnerships

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• Thank you all!!
• WG - GHS Brazil
• http//www.desenvolvimento.gov.br/sitio/secex/negI
  nternacionais/claRotSubQuimicas/oquee.php
• Eletronic Mail - ghs_at_desenvolvimento.gov.br