Latest Progress of Chemical

Management Policies in China

Division of Chemicals Environmental Management
Department of Soil Environment Management
MEE, China
2018.6.23
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Chemicals Environmental Management

1Thinkings and Key Tasks in 13th Five-year Plan Period

2Main progress in 2017

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Work plan for 20182

Thinkings and Key Tasks in 13th Five-year Plan Period

1. General idea
Bearing in mind the environmental quality improvement as core, aiming atcontrolling the environmental and health risks of chemicals, drived byreform and innovation, by means of identification, assessment and control,
fulfilling systemic, scientific, legal, refined, and information management

requirements, to carry out the top design, to improve the management
system, to strengthen the base support, to set up the limited goals, to beproactive, to make the new progress in the chemical environmental
management .

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Thinkings and Key Tasks in 13th Five-year Plan Period

A system of laws and regulations
is basically establishedThe risk is under control for chemicals
in international conventions

Goals by2020
Database on chemical hazard
characteristics
is basically completed

significant achievement on theprevention and control of toxic andharmful pollutantscapacity for hazards identification
and risk assessment
is preliminarily formed

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Thinkings and Key Tasks in 13th Five-year Plan Period

Key Tasks
One strategy

Two regulations

Three basic blocks

Four missions

Six mechanisms

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1. One strategy
To conduct a study on national strategy for chemical
environmental management, to clarify the basic guidelines,
principles, policies and overall strategic goals of the national
chemical environmental management
To build a chemical risk management frameworkTo propose mid and long-term chemical risk assessment andrisk management action plans and chemical environmental
management capacity building programme6Thinkings and Key Tasks in 13th Five-year Plan Period

2. Two legislation on environmental management of chemicals
Actively seeking to incorporate chemical environmental

management in the soil pollution prevention law
Pushing for a specific chemical environmental management
regulation

3. Three basic blocks
 Construction of chemical environmental and health risk
assessment technology system.
Basic database of chemical hazard characteristics.
Professional team building.

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4. Four missions
 Chemicals risk assessment
 Restriction and elimination of high-risk chemicals
 To promote the prevention and control of toxic and harmful
pollutants
 To strengthen cooperation and communication

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Thinkings and Key Tasks in 13th Five-year Plan Period

5. Six mechanisms
To reform the regulation for the registration of new chemical
substances

To adjust the regulation for the registration of hazardous
chemicalsTo establish a regular investigation system for the productionand use of chemicals
To perfect the chemical hazard identification system
To improve the chemical environment risk assessment system
To improve the information reporting system for environmental
release of key environmental management hazardous chemicals

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Environmental management ofexisting chemicals

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Environmental management of
new chemical substances

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1.

Announcement on publishing the list of China's severely
restricted toxic chemicals (2018)（ former MEP announcement 2017 NO. 74）

POPsconvention

PIC convention
lead tetramethide

Minamata

Lindanelead tetraethyl PCTconventionPerfluorooctane sulfonicSCCPacid (PFOS), its salts andPerfluorooctane sulfonic acid,perfluorooctane sulfonyl

tributyl tin compound

fluoride (PFOS-F)

perfluorooctane sulfonates,

Hexabromocyclododecane

perfluorooctane sulfonamides and

mercury

perfluorooctane sulfonyls

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Goal：
To strengthen the management on toxic chemicals

References：
Regulations on safety management of hazardous chemicals
POPs convention
Minamata convention
PIC convention

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Environmental management of existing chemicals

Requirements：
 For the import or export of toxic chemicals included inthe list, one must apply in advance to the MEE for theClearance Notification for Environmental Managementon the Import/Export of Toxic Chemcials.

 The import and export operators must show theClearance Notification to the Customs for its clearance.

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Environmental management of existing chemicals
Chemicals

Chemicals

2. Announcement on

1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene

publishing the Priority

Hexabromocyclododecane

1,3-butadiene

Naphthalene

Control Chemical List

Musk Xylene

Lead Compound(first batch)(former MEP 2017 NO. 83) N,n'-bis(methylphenyl)-1,4benzenediamine

Short-chain ChlorinatedParaffins
Dichloromethane
Cadmium And Cadmium
Compounds
Mercury And Mercury
Compounds
Formaldehyde
Chromium VI Compounds

Perfluorooctane
Sulfonic Acid (PFOS),Its Salts And
Perfluorooctane
Sulfonyl Fluoride(PFOS-F)
Nonylphenol And
Nonylphenoxypoly(ethyleneoxy)ethanol
Trichloromethane
Trichloroethylene
Arsenic And Arsenic
Compounds
Decabromodiphenyl
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Tetrachloroethylene

Environmental management of existing chemicals

Basis for the list
Assessment on theenvironmental
and health risks ofexisting chemicals

Priority control list ofchemicals was released
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Focus on chemicals
With high inherent hazard propertiesMay exist for a long time in the environmentCould pose a greater risk to the environment and humanhealthMeasures

Incorporated with the pollutant discharge permit systemRestrictive measuresImplement the system of clean production audit andinformation disclosure
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Environmental management of new chemical substances
1. Announcement for adjusting the data requirements in
the guidance for the registration of new chemicalsubstances （former MEP announcement 2017 NO. 42）
minimum requirements fortoxicological data
minimum
requirements for
生态毒理学最低数据要求
ecotoxicological data

Adjustments

Exemption conditions of physicaland chemical properties data
Exemption conditions
for toxicology data
Exemption conditions
for ecotoxicology data

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Environmental management of new chemical substances

Principles
1.Streamline administration and delegate power to lower levels, andlighten the burden on enterprise
2.Simplify data requirement, conform to management practice
3.Enhance scientificness and standardization

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Environmental management of new chemical substances

Improvements•

Quantitative data exemption conditions or parameters arerefined;•Terminology is improved;•

Relevant technical content is improved

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2. Announcement for Guidelines for on-site verification of ecological
toxicology data for environmental management of new chemical
substances registration（former MEP announcement 2017 NO. 70）

Goal：To standardize on-site verification of ecological toxicology test datain environmental management registration of new chemical substances

Main content: make clear requirements on verification institutions andpersonnel, verification objects and contents, result processing, etc
Progress: the first on-site verification was conducted at the end of 201720

Environmental management of new chemical substances

verification objects :In principle, random sampling method is adopted to carry out on-site verificationof the ecological toxicology test data involved in the environmental management
registration of new chemical substances. Test data issued by the following testing
facilities shall be subject to spot check:
1. The number of reports issued with test data is large and does not match thenumber of personnel in key positions and the laboratory area of the testinstitution.
2. Many suspected during desk reviewing.
3. Many suspected during previous spot checkings

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Environmental management of new chemical substances

Verification contents ：Focus on the original record of test data. It can also check
whether the testing facilities comply with good laboratory
practice.

Processing of verification results ： In case of serious problems, the test reports involved shallnot be accepted The verification status and results will be made public on
the SCC website
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Work plan for 2018

To issue guideline framework for chemical environmental
and health risk assessment

To develop a chemical environment management strategyTo promote the implementation of the risk control
measures for priority control chemicals

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To promote the revision of laws, regulations and important

regulations in the field of chemical environmental
management

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