Customs Control
Customs control means compliance monitoring of obligations of industry from the management system for industrial chemicals by customs officials. This activity is part of the customs control of imported goods.
With high resources the steps proposed for implementation of this sub-element are as follows:
- Comprehensive customs control of the identity of priority chemicals, of mixtures containing these chemicals and of 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 :
- Green Customs Guide to Multilateral agreements, UNEP 2008
- UNIDO: Guidance for the control of the import and export of POPs, website of the Stockholm Convention (2012)
- 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