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The draft decree also spells out chemical production and business conditions and provides lists of chemicals subject to conditional production and trade; chemicals restricted from production or trade; banned chemicals; chemicals subject to notification; and chemicals requiring incident prevention and response plans.
It specifically stipulates that investment projects on the production and trade of chemicals requiring incident prevention and response plans must ensure safety distances from their production and storage areas to residential areas, public works, historical-cultural relics, beauty spots, biodiversity conservation zones and daily-life water sources.
Safety distances would be determined on the basis of practical hydro-meteorological and topographical conditions of places where dangerous chemicals-producing or -storing establishments are located and the technological process of producing or storing toxic chemicals.
The draft paper requires existing chemical-producing establishments, which now fail to ensure safety distances, to establish such distances as prescribed before
According to the draft, the Ministry of Industry and Trade would set up a departmental-level agency to perform the state administration of chemical activities.
It also assigns the Ministry of Industry and Trade to prepare a scheme on a national chemical safety database and a national list of chemicals and submit them to the Prime Minister for approval before July 1, 2009, implement the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals, and build a system of laboratories to appraise new chemicals in Vietnam.
This decree, once promulgated, would replace Chapter II, and Article 12, Chapter III, of Government Decree No. 68/2005/ND-CP of May 20, 2005, on chemicals safety.-