Local Control
1. Customs control
2. Local control
Local control means compliance monitoring of obligations of industry from the management system for industrial chemicals by local or national inspectorates.
With medium resources the steps proposed for implementation of this sub-element are as follows:
- Local inspectorate checks the functioning of an internal information system to ensure compliance.
- The allowed uses of chemicals and the labels for high priority chemicals and priority chemicals and hazardous mixtures containing these chemicals are controlled.
- Carry out some laboratory analysis on the identity of the chemical or the chemical in the mixture. For this you can:
a. Use other countries’ laboratories or national commercial laboratories funded by donor countries contracts (a is limited resources); or
b. Use university laboratories in your country and finance some equipment, or pay for the analysis directly or through donor countries; or
c. Obtain donor support to set up government laboratories and to run them with your own resources (b and c are medium resources).
Relevant tools
Below is a list of tools relevant for implementing this topic :
- Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of Multilateral Environmental Agreements, UNEP, 2006
- UNEP: Guidance on the Development of Legal and Institutional Infrastructures for Sound Management of Chemicals and Measures for Recovering Costs of National Administration (LIRA-Guidance) (2015)
- Case study of Canada’s Chemicals Management Plan