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Suggested Steps for Establishing a Lead Paint Law

December 2019

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This fact sheet outlines steps that have been helpful in countries that have adopted lead paint laws. The steps are not necessarily sequential or needed in every country.

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Policymaking

Factsheets and brochures

Lead Paint Factsheet

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UNEP ,

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November 2019

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This factsheet presents the work of UNEP and the Lead Paint Alliance. The document also highlights its impacts and the SAICM GEF project Lead in paint component.

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Awareness-raising

Policy document

Understanding chemicals in products: SAICM Policy Brief

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SAICM , UNEP ,

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November 2019

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The transparency of information about chemicals in global supply chains has been an emerging policy issue for the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) since 2009, leading to programmes such as the UNEP Chemicals in Products (CiP) Programme. The CiP programme focuses specifically on the textiles, toys, electronics and building materials sectors.Information exchange in the value chain is key in identifying and addressing any chemicals of concern1 in products. Brands and retailers frequently lack crucial knowledge about the properties

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Chemicals in building products Chemicals in toys

Policy document

Model Law and Guidance for Regulating Lead Paint

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UNEP

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July 2018

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UN Environment, in cooperation with World Health Organization, United States Environment Protection Agency and other partners, has developed a model law and guidance in order to assist countries in establishing and implementing regulation on lead paint.The purpose of this guidance is to assist countries to enact new laws (or to modify their existing laws) to establish a single regulatory limit on the total lead content in paints. The guidance describes the key elements of effective and enforceable legal requirements. It

Emerging Policy Issues: Lead in paint

Topics: Policymaking

Policy document

International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management

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World Health Organization FAO

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May 2014

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The International Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management is the framework on pesticide management for all public and private entities engaged in, or associated with, production, regulation and management of pesticides.The new Code of Conduct on Pesticide Management was approved by the FAO Conference in June 2013. The Code provides standards of conduct serves as a point of reference in relation to sound pesticide life cycle management practices, in particular for government authorities and the pesticide industry.The document is available

Emerging Policy Issues: Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Factsheets and brochures

The Potential Key Role of SAICM Focal Points in Reducing Harm from HHPs

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SAICM

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August 2022

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The factsheet entitled "The potential key role of SAICM Focal Points in reducing harm from Highly Hazardous Pesticides (HHPs)" was produced by stakeholders from the University of Cape Town, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, the Food and Agriculture Organization and Umweltbundesamt. This factsheet was developed to ensure information about HHPs reaches all SAICM National Focal Points and other relevant stakeholders for them to make effective and informed decisions and play an active role in facilitating the reduction of

Emerging Policy Issues: Highly Hazardous Pesticides

Topics: Knowledge Management

Factsheets and brochures

Summary of SAICM and IOMC side-event: How could an integrated chemicals and waste management approach build a strengthened SAICM beyond 2020?

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SAICM IOMC

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June 2022

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A side event took place on 14 June 2022, in the margins of the Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (BC COP-15, RC COP-10, SC COP-10). The side event was organized jointly by the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) Secretariat and the Inter-Organization Programme for the Sound Management of Chemicals (IOMC).It contributed to the main theme of these meetings - Global Agreements for a Healthy Planet: Sound management of chemicals and waste.

Factsheets and brochures

Launch of E-learning Course on Industrial Chemicals Databases and Information Sharing

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UNEP ,

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April 2022

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Following a collaborative study by UNEP and the International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA), which provided a comprehensive inventory of the publicly available databases on industrial chemicals in commerce, SAICM coordinated the development of an e-learning course to bridge the information gap by improving accessibility to environment, health, and safety (EHS) information for industrial chemicals.In an interactive and engaging way, this course provides guidance on locating and using information on industrial chemicals in commerce and identifies some barriers to identifying

Emerging Policy Issues: Chemicals in products

Topics: Knowledge Management