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Actualités & Evénements
Actualités
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19-juin-2008
In his speech delivered at the Conference of Montreal, Angel Gurría underlined that growing pressures from agriculture, energy production and industries were imperilling our water resources. He affirmed that all countries - OECD and developing countries alike – need to introduce urgently policy reforms and scale-up best practices to avoid dire consequences.
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11-juin-2008
When they are applied in a practical setting, environmentally related taxes and tradable permit systems often differ from simple text-book recommendations that only focus on economic efficiency. This note, prepared by Prof. Stephen Smith of University College, London, contains both a theoretical discussion of “real-world” constraints on policy formulation, and an empirical discussion of the Climate Change Levy vs. the domestic greenhouse gas trading system in the UK, as well as of the Landfill tax vs. the Landfill allowance trading system applied in the same country.
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28-mai-2008
The Report of the Workshop on Human Factors in Chemical Accidents and Incidents has been published.
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13-mai-2008
This study provides an insight on whether a systematic inclusion of releases and transfers from small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in national PRTRs would improve the current knowledge of industrial pollution as a whole. The study concludes that in order to be able to cover the remaining releases and transfers from SMEs, diffuse sources should be included in PRTRs.
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07-mai-2008
Presentations Symposium Programme and presentations from the OECD Industry Event, ‘Multilateral symposium between Monitoring Authorities, Regulatory Authorities and Test Facilities on the Implementation of the OECD Principles of GLP’ held on 10 and 11 April 2008 in Frascati, Italy.
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02-mai-2008
A Resolution on the Implementation of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) was adopted by Council on 28 March 2008 and welcomed by Environment Ministers of OECD countries and major non-member economies at their meeting at OECD on the 28-29 April 2008.
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29-avr.-2008
Section 4.1.1 of the OECD Monograph Guidance Document has been revised to include text which specifies that Regulatory Authorities should not use the contents of a Monograph from another country as a basis for their regulatory decisions unless the data package upon which a particular Monograph was based has been provided to the Authority, or the owner of the data has granted permission for use of the summary evaluation in a Monograph in lieu of the data.
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29-avr.-2008
Les ministres ont examiné les priorités environnementales, de même que les problèmes et les opportunités engendrés par la situation économique actuelle et les politiques en vigueur, notamment en ce qui concerne la biodiversité et le changement climatique.
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15-avr.-2008
L’industrie chimique et les gouvernements des pays de l’OCDE testent chaque année des centaines de produits chimiques et dépensent des millions d’euros pour assurer leur innocuité. L’OCDE vient de mettre au point un instrument novateur, la Boîte à outils sur les applications des (Q)SAR, pour évaluer les propriétés dangereuses des produits chimiques en analysant leur structure moléculaire.
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02-avr.-2008
The OECD (Q)SAR Application Toolbox is a software application intended to be used by governments, the chemical industry and other stakeholders to fill gaps in (eco)toxicity data needed for assessing the hazards of chemicals. With this Toolbox, a user can fill data gaps by read-across and trend analysis, group chemicals into categories and gain access to a library of (Q)SAR models. It can be downloaded free of charge. (Press Release)
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