World Health Organisation (WHO)

No hiding place

ASSOCIATION The year ahead looks set to be a busy time for Europe’s chemical distributors. Fecc’s 2013 Business Plan outlines the many tasks faced by its numerous working committees

Coloured liquids in lab containers

On the brink

MULTIMODAL As the scope of the UN model regulations extends into new areas, it is no surprise that the UN experts need time to reflect and consult with individuals even more expert in certain areas. By remitting so many papers back for further work, however, the Sub-committee does seem to have left a lot to be decided at this month’s final session of the current biennium

Winning football team

Read all about it!

MULTIMODAL Anyone who hopes that the UN experts will one day complete the Orange Book and leave well alone will be sorely disappointed; as their last session showed, continuing technological developments continue to raise new problems for the regulators to wrestle with

Man inspecting barrels of hazardous goods

Don't forget to write

GHS Little of any substance was decided at the first meeting of the GHS Sub-committee for this new biennium. However, several correspondence groups reported back and have been sent off with new instructions.

Storage Terminal Explosion Aftermath

Fill yer boots

MULTIMODAL The UN experts needed to play hurry-up during their final session of the 2009-2010 biennium. Any proposals that did not come with sufficient technical justification were summarily bounced back for resubmission

Palais des Nations

Head to head

GHS Clarification of some problematic areas was agreed by the GHS experts at their final session of the 2009/2010 biennium but they may find it harder to deal with some more contentious problems during the coming two years

Carry on harmonising

GHS One might think that generation of the globally harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals would be a finite project but, with a Sub-committee in place, new tasks can always be found – even ten years after it started work

Coffee time

CONFERENCE REPORT US industry has got a lot on its regulatory plate at the moment – but then so have the authorities.

Coffee time

CONFERENCE REPORT US industry has got a lot on its regulatory plate at the moment – but then so have the authorities. Last year’s DGAC annual conference provided an opportunity for both sides to get together

Bellevue in Washington

Harmony within reach

GHS The ambition to establish and implement a globally harmonised system for chemical classification and labelling is nearing fruition.

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