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 high resources the steps proposed for implementation of this sub-element are as follows:
- Carry out local control of allowed uses, labels and safety data sheets and other industry obligations for high priority chemicals and priority chemicals, mixtures containing these chemicals and articles containing selected priority chemicals such as POPs.
- Carry out some laboratory analysis of the identity of the chemical as such or the chemical in the mixture or in the article. For this you can:
a. Use university laboratories in your country and finance some equipment, or pay for the analysis directly or through donor countries; or
b. Obtain donor support to set up government laboratories and to run them with your own resources (a and b are medium resources); or
c. Pay external commercial laboratories for the analysis; or
d. Set up government laboratories with your own resources (c and d are high 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