IFCS Indicators of Progress
Priorities for Action beyond 2000
and
Forum Recommendations
QUESTIONNAIRE
Please provide the information described on the following pages concerning your country,
giving the current status, and, to the extent possible, that foreseen in the near future.
Important Note:
At its 63rd meeting, the IFCS Forum Standing Committee (FSC) recommended that the
IFCS Secretariat post completed questionnaires on the IFCS website, to increase
transparency and for ease of reference.
Please check the following box if your country does NOT wish to have its completed
questionnaire posted for public viewing on the IFCS website: □
If you do not check this box, your completed country questionnaire will be posted at
www.ifcs.ch following its submission.
Please complete:
COUNTRY: SEYCHELLES - (2007)
Reporting year:
2006
(circle appropriate year)
(2007)
2008
1.
NATIONAL CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITIES FOR CHEMICALS MANAGEMENT
Priorities for Action E1 and E21
1a)
Has a comprehensive National Chemicals Management Profile, or other
equivalent strategic national plan, been developed
through a multi-stakeholder process2?
National Profile
Yes
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Other equivalent strategic national plan
No X
Yes X
No
□
If "Yes" to either of the above, please indicate the original publication date and
the date(s) of any revisions.
National Inventories for POP chemicals as part of the Stockholm Convention
implementation
(January 2007) Ministry of Environment and Natural
Resources.
If "Yes" to either of the above, please list all ministries, agencies and
organizations that participated:
Ministry of Health, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Agriculture
included), Public Utilities Corporation, Seychelles Bureau of Standards, Customs
and NGOs.
If "No", is your country in the process of developing or planning on developing a
Comprehensive National Chemicals Management Profile?
Yes X
No
(Under discussion with UNITAR)
Expected completion date _?__
□
If "No", have equivalent measures such as a government investigation on
chemical safety followed by legislative measures been undertaken?
Yes
□
No
□
If "Yes", please describe:
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1
The Priorities for Action Beyond 2000 may be viewed on the IFCS website at www.ifcs.ch.
A multi-stakeholder process is a process involving all concerned national ministries and other government
institutions, as well as other interested national parties.
2
1b)
Has your country developed any of the following on the sound management of
chemicals?
If development is in progress,
please provide the expected
completion year?
National Policies
If yes, please
provide year
completed.
YES 2001
National Priorities
YES
End 2006 Partially addressed
in the NIP to be completed
with National Chemical Profile
in the coming year. (2008)
2000
National Strategies
NO
National Action Plans
1c)
Partly (POPsNIP)
2006
Has your country established an inter-ministerial/intersectoral coordinating
mechanism (e.g. committee or body) to facilitate the comprehensive treatment of
chemical safety issues?
□
Yes X
No
If "Yes":
What is the name of the "mechanism"? Pesticide Board
When was it established?
2.
No
1996 Pursuant to the Pesticide
Control Act.
CLASSIFICATION AND LABELLING OF CHEMICALS
Priority for Action B1
2a)
Has your country initiated work to adopt and implement the Globally
Harmonized System
for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS)?
Yes
x The process is not moving
No
If "Yes", what is the expected date (year) GHS will be fully operational?
2b)
Has your country ratified and implemented ILO Convention 170 on
Safety in the Use of
Chemicals at Work3, or instituted comparable measures?
Yes
3
□
No X
ILO Convention 170 may be viewed on the ILO website at:
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm
3.
NATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION ON HAZARDOUS
CHEMICALS
Priority for Action C1
3a)
What arrangements are operational in your country for the exchange of
information on hazardous chemicals? Please describe.
Please indicate if the established infrastructure includes:
1) website where national partners can gain access to chemical information
sources,
Yes
□
No X
2) institutional directory listing sources of information
Yes
4.
□
No X
NATIONAL PROCEDURES ON SAFETY INFORMATION FOR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS IN
CIRCULATION
Priority for Action C3
4a)
Does your country have procedures in place to ensure that any hazardous
material put into circulation is accompanied, at a minimum, by appropriate and
reliable safety information that is easy to access, read and understand?
Yes X
No
□
If "Yes":
Are the procedures consistent with the safety data sheets of the 1990 International
Labour Organization Chemicals Convention (No.170)?
Yes X
No
□
Do they conform to the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and
Labelling Of Chemicals?
Yes
5.
□ Need to be reviewed to ensure compliance
No
□
ECOLOGICALLY SOUND AND INTEGRATED STRATEGIES FOR PEST MANAGEMENT
Priority for Action D1
5a)
Has your country prepared integrated pest management strategies?
Yes X (Department of Agriculture)
No
□
If "Yes", were national studies done to develop the strategies?
□
Yes
No X (But the same is being reviewed at present with a more
scientific approach, with the help of other Department and FAO)
6.
OBSOLETE STOCKS OF PESTICIDES AND OTHER CHEMICALS
Priority for Action D2
6a)
Are there any obsolete stocks of pesticides and/or other chemicals in your
country?
Yes
□
No X
6b)
Has your country prepared an action plan for disposal of obsolete stocks
of pesticides and other chemicals?
Yes
x
No
□
If "Yes", has the action plan been implemented?
Yes X (implemented and closely monitored)
No
□
If "Yes", has the action plan been completed?
Yes X
No
□
If "No", is work in progress to prepare an action plan?
Yes
No
7.
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If no, why not? _________________________________________
NATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTION OF MAJOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS AND
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE
Priority for Action D4
7a)
4
□ If yes, what is the expected completion date (year)?
Has your country implemented a national system for emergency preparedness
and
response, in accordance with international principles4?
Ref. OECD Second Edition 2003 Guiding Principles for Chemical Accident Prevention, Preparedness
and Response, undertaken in cooperation with other international organizations, including ILO, IMO,
UNECE, UNEP, UNOCHA (UNEP/OCHA Joint Environment Unit) and WHO.
Yes X
No
□
If "No", is work in progress to implement the system?
Yes
7b)
□ expected completion date (year)?
(2007 / 2008) No
□
Is there a national law requiring the system?
Yes
□
No X
7c)
Has your country ratified and implemented ILO Convention 1745 on
Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents?
Yes
□
No X
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
No X (Not at the moment…..)
Yes
8.
INTERNATIONAL CODE OF CONDUCT ON THE DISTRIBUTION AND USE OF PESTICIDES
8a)
Has your government implement the revised International Code of Conduct on
the Distribution and Use of Pesticides (November 2002)6 as the basis for a
comprehensive life cycle approach to pesticide management ?
Yes
No X
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
□
Yes
No X (With the implementation of the NIP, it will
systematically change)
8b)
Have the provisions of the Code of Conduct been implemented through other
pieces of legislation or by other means?
Yes X
No
□
Through the enforcement of the Pesticide Control Act and the Environment
Protection Act
5
ILO Convention 170 may be viewed on the ILO website at:
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm
6
The International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides may be viewed at:
http://www.fao.org/AG/AGP/AGPP/Pesticid/
If "Yes", please briefly describe.
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9.
POISON CENTRES
Priority for Action D7
9a)
Have poison centre(s) been established in your country?
Yes
□
No X
If "Yes", please indicate classification level for each poison centre:
WHO Status of Development Classification
well-established centres, the full range of clinical analytical and other relevant facilities
A
and cover the whole country.
well-established centres, but lack some of the related facilities or do not provide full
B
coverage to the country. These centres require further development in order to meet
the ideal criteria for centres given in the IPCS Guidelines
certain facilities for poison control, but require major support to develop further areas
C
of activities, according to the criteria in the IPCS Guidelines, and should expand
coverage through the country.
Centre (Name &
location)
9b)
Date
Established
Classification initial
Is strengthening of poison centers planned?
If "Yes", for what time period?
___________________________
Classification 2000
Classification current
9c)
If there are no established poison centres in your country, is work under way in
your country to establish a poison control centre with related chemical and
analytical facilities for the first time?
Yes
□
No X
If "Yes" when do you expect the poison control centre to be operational? Please
provide location and date (year).
Note : Seychelles is linked to the United Kingdom in that respect……
10.
POLLUTANT RELEASE AND TRANSFER REGISTERS/EMISSION INVENTORIES
Priority for Action D8
10a)
Has your country established:
An air emission inventory?
Yes X
□
No
A land emission inventory?
Yes X
No
□
A water emission inventory?
Yes
□
No X
A waste inventory?
Yes X
No
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A Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (PRTR)?
Yes
□
No X
If "No", is work being initiated to design a PRTR or emission inventory
system?
Yes X
No
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10 b) Has your country implemented a system comparable to the PRTR (e.g. the Integrated
Pollution Prevention and Control)?
Yes
□
No X
11.
PREVENTION OF ILLEGAL TRAFFIC IN TOXIC & DANGEROUS PRODUCTS
Priority for Action F
11a)
Has your country developed a national strategy, or other national measures (e.g.
legislation, action plans) for the prevention of illegal traffic in toxic and
dangerous products?
□
□(A bill have already been prepared in 2006 and is
in the process of being approved by the Government)
Yes
No
If "Yes", when was it prepared? Please indicate date (year)
12.
Children and Chemical Safety (Forum IV Recommendation)
12a)
Has your government prepared, through multi-stakeholder consultation,
initial national assessments of children’s environmental health and
chemical safety?
X
Yes
No
□
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
12b)
□
No
□
Has your government taken action to promote harmonized data collection,
research, legislation and regulations, and the use of indicators of children’s
environmental health?
Yes
□
No X
If "Yes", please briefly describe:
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
□
No
□ (Not at present)
13. HAZARD DATA GENERATION (Forum IV Recommendation)
13a)
Has your government established national priorities for information
generation for chemicals that are not produced in high volumes?
□
Yes
No X(we do not produce any chemical and all the imports is
controlled by the Act)
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
□
No
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Other Forum IV Recommendations address:
Please provide brief information on specific actions your government has taken to
respond to the recommendations of Forum IV in these areas:
Occupational Safety and Health; (The Conventions relating to the
Occupational
Health and Safety are still being studied by the Ministry
concern).
Acutely Toxic Pesticides – risk management and reduction;
Education of
the Farmers and other chemical handlers. (Ministry of Health / Ministry of
Environment and Natural Resources, Department of Agriculture)
Capacity building; This subject will be address once the NIP is implemented.
INFOCAP (Information Exchange Network on Capacity Building for the Sound
Management of Chemicals ) implementation.
Forum V Recommendations:
Please provide brief information on specific actions your government has taken to
respond to the recommendations of Forum V in these areas:
1. Applying Precaution in the Context of Chemical Safety
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provision of information on tools and approaches
capacity building/skill sharing initiatives to support application of tools and
approaches
2. Heavy Metals (Mercury, Lead, Cadmium)
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(Study conducted)
initiate actions that will address the health, including occupational health and
the environmental impact of mercury, lead and cadmium;
initiate, continue, and intensify actions, as appropriate, to address the excess
supply of mercury on a global scale through a variety of possible measures,
such as an export prohibition preventing excess mercury from re-entering the
global market and a global phase out of primary production of mercury;
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activities, including environmentally sound use, storage, recycling and
disposal of mercury, lead and cadmium and partnerships programmes and
voluntary agreements to promote management of problems related to mercury,
lead and cadmium;
support and contribute to the Global Partnerships for Mercury Reductions;
3. Toys and Chemical Safety
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identify chemicals of concern used in toys, and potential substitution options,
develop strategies for sharing information on chemicals commonly used in toys and
adverse effects from their use,
encourage countries and regions to develop and share the results of surveillance of
chemical content of toys with other countries and all stakeholders,
promote research on impacts of chemicals on product safety and children’s health in
the context of toy use, and
support educational efforts to increase awareness of issues of chemical safety and
toys among critical groups such as parents and children, health care professionals,
small and medium scale manufacturers and the informal sector.
guidance for toy safety
Details of person completing the questionnaire:
IFCS National Focal Point:
Yes X
Mr. Danny Poiret MSc
Name:
Director Environmental Health
Title:
Health
Ministry
P.O. Box 52
Address
Victoria, Mahe
No
Republic of Seychelles
Indian Ocean
Tel:
+ (248) 388078 / 388079
Mobile + (248) 722997
04th May 2007
Fax:
Email:
+ (248) 224792
adrpoiret@hotmail.com
denvironment@moh.gov.sc
Date:
Signature: D. Poiret
Please provide the following additional information:
Does the IFCS National Focal Point have direct access to the Internet in his/her office?
Yes X
If "No", does he/she have access to the Internet in the building where he/she works?
Yes
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No
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