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Ordonnance sur la protection contre les substances et les préparations dangereuses (Ordonnance sur les produits chimiques, OChim)

Ordinance on protection against dangerous substances and preparations (Chemicals Ordinance, ChemO)

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Summary

This Ordinance regulates the analysis and assessment of the dangers and risks that substances and preparations may pose to human life and health and to the environment; the conditions relating to the placing on the market of substances and preparations liable to endanger human beings or the environment; the use of substances and preparations likely to endanger human beings or the environment and the processing by the enforcement authorities of data relating to substances and preparations.

Issuer

Switzerland

Year

2016

Region

Europe

Issuer (type)

Swiss Confederation (Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft) (Government)

Instrument type

Ordinance

Disclosure instrument

No

Geographical scope

National

Mandatory or voluntary

Mandatory

Text analysis

    • Moderate 0.82%
    • Low 0.00%
    • E focus: environment, hazardous substances, recycling, soil, solid waste, waste, water, energy
    • S focus: compensation, intellectual property, children
    • G focus: risk management
    • Agriculture, Arts, Management, Manufacturing, Mining, Transportation