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Changes to the regulation of industrial chemicals
Changes have been made to the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) to strengthen the regulation of industrial chemicals and align NSW with new national standards for industrial chemicals environmental risk management.
Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard
The Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management Standard or ‘IChEMS’ was developed collaboratively by Commonwealth, state and territory governments to harmonise industrial chemical environmental risk management across Australia.
New scheduled activities for environmentally hazardous chemicals
The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) includes new scheduled activities for environmentally hazardous chemicals for premises based and non premises-based activities.
Chemical use notices
The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) allows the EPA to issue a chemical use notice to require manufacturers and users of a specified chemical to provide information about their use of the chemical.
Streamlining the NSW regulatory framework for managing industrial chemicals
Converting EHC licences to environment protection licences
Current EHC licences issued under the former Environmentally Hazardous Chemicals Act 1985 (EHC Act) have been converted to environment protection licences under the Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act).
Chemical Control Order requirements
Chemical wastes
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