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HCF 2019 Panel 5: Elisa Coghlin
1. Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
Quality of and access to data on chemicals
The view of the Directorate of Chemicals in Argentina
2. Internal mechanisms: articulation with stakeholders
GOVERNMENT
Inter-
ministerial
working
group
PRIVATE
SECTOR
Industrial
associations
CIVIL SOCIETY
NGOs
SCIENTIFIC-
ACADEMIC
INSTITUTIONS
Universities
SETAC
CONICET
INDEC
INTI
OAA
IRAM
Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
3. Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
External mechanisms: use of OECD tools and guidelines
• IOMC toolkit
• Chemical managment desitions and reccomendations:
• MAD
• Cooperative investigation and risk reduction
• PRTR
• Accidents
• Confidential data management
4. Chemicals Lifecycle and Risk
management
CLEANER PRODUCTION
CONTAMINATED SITES
ACCIDENTS AND
EMERGENCIES
RELEASE AND TRANSFER OF
POLLUTANTS
Notification of Substances
Risk analysis
Harmonized classification and labelling
Prevention
Risk management
Development of alternative technologies
Response capacities
PRTR
Remediation
Access to information
Methodologies for uniformed calculations
Statics and Reports
Contaminated sites evaluation
Research, report and follow up
Substances and productive processes replacement
Product labelling
Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
Midterm Agenda Setting
5. Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
Use of ECHA available information
• Screening on restricted substances (chemical products
and articles)
• Development of legal framework in Argentina: study of
regulatory scheme on chemicals management in EU
(REACH, guidance document)
• Rotterdam Convention: Export Notifications and PICs
• Source of information: Substance profile, dossiers,
Classification and Labeling
6. Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
Challenges and concerns
• Availability of “first stages” information
• Cultural and contextual differences for priorization
• Flexibility of offered tools
• Impossibility to replicate
7. Secretraría de Control
y Monitoreo Ambiental
¡Muchas gracias!
Helsinki Chemical Forum – May 2019
Elisa Coghlan - ecoghlan@ambiente.gov.ar