Strategy for Improving the Workability of Hazardous Substances Provisions
of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act
- Introduction
- Summary
of Strategy
- Short-term actions: deliver on promises to establish some credibility
- Longer-term actions: change HSNO to improve workability
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Background
- Asked to improve workability of HSNO
- Process applied to develop the strategy
- Key
Elements of a Strategy to Improve Workability
- Vision
- Principles adhered to
- Five key elements
- Sound
Compliance Monitoring and Enforcement Arrangements
- Situation
- How
- Give ERMA stronger directing and co-ordinating role
- ERMA addresses local coverage
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Simplify Transfer
- What is transfer?
- Transfer needs to be streamlined
- ERMA needs flexibility for practical solutions
- How
- Priority
- Subsequent benefits
- Remove
Redundancy and Cost from the Hazardous Substance Approval Process
and Management System
- Situation
- New method to transfer notified toxic substances
- Situation – not risk based
- How – risk based
- Situation – individual approvals for similar products
- How – use ‘generic’ approvals
- Situation – costs of approvals seen to be too high
- How – reducing costs to business
- Make
Controls Understandable for Users and Enforcement Officers
- Situation
- Opportunity
- How
- How in the short term – guidance
- How – conditions on approvals
- How – standards
- How – a simple code of practice approval process
- Subsequent benefits
-
Improve Regulatory Interfaces
- Conclusion
- Summary
of Recommendations
- Short-term actions: deliver on promises to establish some credibility
- Longer-term actions: change HSNO to improve workability
