PROJECTS
Chemicals management
The United Nations has adopted a comprehensive international policy framework that governs the production, marketing and use of ‘chemicals’ - a definition that includes concentrates, minerals, metals, alloys and all their products sold on the consumer markets. This initiative, termed the UN Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is promoting further regulation and customer-driven market restrictions at the global, regional and national level.
The resultant need to prove that a material is safe to market and use means that both industry and regulators require well designed and workable policies and assessment methods. Importantly for our members, and their customers, these must be tailored to reflect the specific nature of minerals and metals.
What is ICMM doing?
ICMM is focusing in four key areas:
- Working with key stakeholders in the development of chemicals management policies at the global level and
- Coordinating cross-commodity industry development of metals specific hazard/risk assessment and management tools and promotion among industry and regulators
- Fostering partnerships to ensure that our companies and our supply chain have the capacity to implement the tools and concepts developed.
- Providing a robust and accessible base of information to ensure a sound, science-based approach to corporate and regulatory decision making.
What will our work achieve?
These activities aim to provide:
- Best practices for the management of mercury in the mining and non-ferrous metals sector.
- Integration of key regulatory jurisdictions of technically robust approaches to metals risk assessment and risk management.
- Issues based co-ordination and facilitation of cross-commodity technical policy development.
PROJECT DETAILS
Developing robust risk assessment methodologies and promoting sound chemicals management in the international policy arena.
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- Eurofer
- Eurometaux
- Defra
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RELATED PUBLICATIONS
Minerals and Metals Management 2020
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Materials Stewardship: Eco-efficiency and Product Policy
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GHS: Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
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Metals Environmental Risk Assessment Guidance (MERAG)
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Maximizing Value: Guidance on implementing materials stewardship in the minerals and metals value chain
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Maximizing Value: a summary
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Ores and Concentrates: An industry approach to EU Hazard Classification
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ICMM Newsletter: Volume 5 Number 1 - Feb 2006
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RELATED LINKS
- Zinc is for life
- Mitsubishi pioneers metals recycling scheme in Japan
- Maximizing Value leaflet now available in Japanese
- ICMM presents Chinese version of Minerals and Metals Management 2020
- 'Action for a safer world' - ICMM's May Newsletter
- ICMM commits to mercury stewardship
- ICMM MERAG and HERAG publications promoted at SETAC World Congress
- ICMM presents at SETAC World Congress
- ICMM and Eurometaux publish REACH compliance guidance
- Mitsubishi's "urban mines" - recycling for production
- Reach Metals Gateway
- UNEP - SAICM
- EURAS
- EBRC
- UNEP mercury program
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK
Principle 04:
Implement risk management strategies based on valid data and sound science.
Principle 08:
Facilitate and encourage responsible product design, use, re-use, recycling and disposal of our products.
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