Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 April 2017
[The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by Marilyn C. Bracken, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Program Integration and Information in the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances of the U.S. Environomental Protection Agency, and Breck Milroy, also of the Environmental Protection Agency.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Press Release (80)34 of May 21, 1980.]
(1) The following elements are treated in this data package: chemical identification data; production/use and disposal data; recommended precautions and emergency measures; analytical methods; physical/chemical data; acute toxicity data; repeated dose toxicity data; and data on mutagenicity, ecotoxicity and degradation/accumulation.
(2) Countries with such legislation include: Switzerland (1969), Japan (1973), Sweden (1973), U.K. (1974), Canada (1975), Norway (1975), U.S. (1976), France (1977), Denmark (1979) and New Zealand (1979). The EEC has recently (1979) issued a Directive concerning the testing, notification, and assessment of chemicals.
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document EW/CHEM/HLM/80.1 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document ENV/CHEM/HLM/80.2 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document ENV/CHEM/HIM/80.3 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document EW/CHEM/HLM/80.4 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document EW/CHEM/HLM/80. 5 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document EW/CHEM/HLM/80.6 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document ENV/CHEM/HLM/80.7 of April 11, 1980.]
* [Reproduced from O.E.C.D. Document ENV/CHEM/HLM/80.8 of April 11, 1980.]