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 at the end of 2006
Please complete:
COUNTRY: BRASIL
1.
NATIONAL CAPABILITIES AND CAPACITIES FOR CHEMICALS MANAGEMENT
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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
Other equivalent strategic national plan
Yes X
Yes
No
No
If "Yes" to either of the above, please indicate the original publication date and
the date(s) of any revisions.
Brazilian Chemical Management Profile. Publication date: September/2003.
No revision since that.
If "Yes" to either of the above, please list all ministries, agencies and
organizations that participated:
Ministry of the Environment - MMA
Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Resources - IBAMA
Ministry of Health – MS
Secretariat of Health Surveillance – SVS
Brazilian Sanitary Surveillance Agency – ANVISA
Oswaldo Cruz Foundation – FIOCRUZ
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply – MAPA
Ministry of Science and Technology – MCT
Ministry of National Integration – MI
Ministry of Mines and Energy – MME
Ministry of Foreign Affairs – MRE
Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade – MDIC
Ministry of Labour and Employment – MTE
Jorge Duprat Figueiredo Foundation for Workers' Safety and Occupational
Medicine – FUNDACENTRO
Ministry of Transport – MT
Brazilian Land Transport Agengy – ANTT
Brazilian Association of State Environmental Entities – ABEMA
Brazilian Chemical Industry Association – ABIQUIM
Workers' Central Trades Union – CUT
Brazilian Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations and Social Movements for
the Environment and Development – FBOMS
University of Brasília – UnB
University of São Paulo – USP
Pan American Health Organization - PAHO
If "No", is your country in the process of developing or planning on developing a
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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.
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Comprehensive National Chemicals Management Profile?
Yes
Expected completion date ___________
No
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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1b)
Has your country developed any of the following on the sound management of
chemicals?
If yes, please
provide year
completed.
If development is in progress,
please provide the expected
completion year?
No
National Policies
National Priorities
Yes (since 2001)
National Strategies
yes (since 2001)
National Action Plans
yes (since 2001)
1c)
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"?
National Comission on Chemical Safety - CONASQ
When was it established?
December/2000
2.
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
No
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If "Yes", what is the expected date (year) GHS will be fully operational?
2008
2b)
Has your country ratified and implemented ILO Convention 170 on
Safety in the Use of
Chemicals at Work3, or instituted comparable measures?
Yes X
3.
No
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.
Brazil has many Banks of Data, related to chemicals:
among others:
SIA – Pesticide Information System (http://www.anvisa.gov.br);
AGROFIT – System of Pesticides (http://www.agricultura.gov.br)
Wood preservatives (http://www.ibama.gov.br/)
SINITOX – National System of Toxicological Information
(http://www.fiocruz.br/sinitox)
Please indicate if the established infrastructure includes:
1) website where national partners can gain access to chemical information
sources,
Yes X
No
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
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ILO Convention 170 may be viewed on the ILO website at:
http://www.ilo.org/ilolex/english/convdisp1.htm
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Do they conform to the Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and
Labelling Of Chemicals?
Yes X
5.
No
ECOLOGICALLY SOUND AND INTEGRATED STRATEGIES FOR PEST MANAGEMENT
Priority for Action D1
5a)
Yes X
Has your country prepared integrated pest management strategies?
No
If "Yes", were national studies done to develop the strategies?
Yes X
6.
No
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 X
No
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
No X
If "Yes", has the action plan been completed?
Yes
No X
If "No", is work in progress to prepare an action plan?
Yes X If yes, what is the expected completion date (year)? 2007
No
7.
If no, why not? _________________________________________
NATIONAL SYSTEMS FOR PREVENTION OF MAJOR INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENTS AND
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & RESPONSE
Priority for Action D4
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7a)
Has your country implemented a national system for emergency
preparedness and response, in accordance with international principles4?
Yes X
No
If "No", is work in progress to implement the system?
Yes
expected completion date (year)? In implementation process since 2004
7b)
Is there a national law requiring the system?
Yes X
No
7c)
Has your country ratified and implemented ILO Convention 1745 on
Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents?
Yes X
No
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
8.
No
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 X
No
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
No
8b)
Have the provisions of the Code of Conduct been implemented through
other pieces of legislation or by other means?
Yes X
No
If "Yes", please briefly describe.
Brazil has legislation for pesticides, since 1989. This legislation is implemented.
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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.
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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/
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9.
POISON CENTRES
Priority for Action D7
9a)
Yes X
Have poison centre(s) been established in your country?
No
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:
City/State)
CCI – Aracaju/Sergipe
CIT – Belém/Pará
SERVITOX – Belo
Horizonte/Minas Gerais
CEATOX – Botucatu/São
Paulo
CIAT – Brasília/Distrito
Federal
CEATOX – Campina
Grande/Paraíba
CCI – Campinas/São Paulo
CIVITOX – Campo
Grande/Mato Grosso do Sul
CIAT – Cascavel/Paraná
CIAVE – Cuiabá/Mato Grosso
CIT – Curitiba/Paraná
CIT – Florianópolis/Santa
Catarina
CEATOX – Fortaleza/Ceará
CIT – Goiânia/Goiás
HVB (Hosp. Vital Brasil) – São
Paulo/São Paulo
CCI – Jabaquara/São Paulo
CEATOX (Hosp. das Clínicas)
– São Paulo/São Paulo
CEATOX – João
Pessoa/Paraíba
CCI – Londrina/Paraná
CIAT – Manaus/Amazonas
CEATOX – Marília/São Paulo
Date
Established
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Classification initial
Classification
- 2000
Classificatio
n - current
CCI – Maringá/Paraná
CIT – Natal/Rio Grande do
Norte
CCI – Niterói/Rio de Janeiro
CIT – Porto Alegre/Rio Grande
do Sul
CEATOX – Presidente
Prudente/São Paulo
CEATOX: Recife/Pernambuco
CCI - Ribeirão Preto/São Paulo
CIAT - Rio Branco/Acre
CCI – Rio de Janeiro/Rio de
Janeiro
CIAVE – Salvador/Bahia
CCI – Santos/São Paulo
CEATOX – São José do Rio
Preto/São Paulo
CCI – São José dos
Campos/São Paulo
CCI – Taubaté/São Paulo
CIAT – Teresina/Piauí
TOXCEN – Vitória/Espírito
Santo
Glossary:
CAT: CENTER OF AID TOXICOLÓGICAL.
CCE: CONTROL CENTER OF POISONINGS
CCI: CONTROL CENTER OF POISONINGS
CCIn: CONTROL CENTER OF POISONINGS
CEATOX: CONTROL CENTER OF POISONINGS
CIAT: CENTER OF INFORMATION AND AID TOXICOLÓGICAL.
CIAVE: CENTER OF INFORMATION AGAINST POISON
CIT: CENTER OF INFORMATION TOXICOLÓGICAL.
CITF: CENTER OF TOXICOLOGICAL AND FARMACOLOGICAL INFORMATION
CIVITOX: INTEGRATED CENTER OF THE SUPERVISION OF TOXICOLOGY
SERVITOX: SERVICE OF TOXICOLOGY.
TOXCEN: CENTER OF ATTENTION TOXICOLÓGICAL
HVB: VITAL BRAZIL HOSPITAL
9b)
Is strengthening of poison centers planned? Yes
If "Yes", for what time period? Brazil has a permanent plan for strengthening this
Centers.
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
If "Yes" when do you expect the poison control centre to be operational? Please
provide location and date (year).
10.
POLLUTANT RELEASE AND TRANSFER REGISTERS/EMISSION INVENTORIES
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Priority for Action D8
10a)
Has your country established:
An air emission inventory?
Yes X
No
A land emission inventory?
Yes
No X
A water emission inventory?
Yes X No
A waste inventory?
Yes X No
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
10 b)
the
Has your country implemented a system comparable to the PRTR (e.g.
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control)?
Yes X
11.
No
No
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?
Yes X
No
If "Yes", when was it prepared? The strategies for this issues is a permanent
action of Ministry of Justice
12.
Children and Chemical Safety (Forum IV Recommendation)
12a)
Has your government prepared, through multi-stakeholder
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consultation, initial national assessments of children’s environmental
health and chemical safety?
Yes X
No
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
No
12b) 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 X
No
If "Yes", please briefly describe:
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
No
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 X
No
If "No", are efforts under way to do so?
Yes
No
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
Area A:
Development of analytical and sampling methodologies, accomplishment of
applied research and elaboration of informative materials (e.g. Pamphlets) about
specific chemicals, such as: silica, vegetable coal, benzene, asbestos, particle material
and others.
Creation of Information System of Population Displayed to Chemicals
(SIMPEAQ).
Area B:
Participation in National Multisectorial Group about Globally Harmonized
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System of classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS).
Area C:
National Chemical Industries Association (ABIQUIM) keeps an Information
Center called Pró-Química to emergency attendance.
Area D:
Elaboration of books, pamphlets and others information diffusion materials about
pesticides.
Auditorship of Ministry of labour and Employment at chemical safety activities aiming
at risks reduction.
Project of Ministry of labour and Employment related to prevent major industrial
accidents, specially in the chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper industries.
Project to reduction benzene risks.
Area E:
Spreading to Latin America the experiences in the tripart commission of benzene.
Training of african countries that speak portuguese professionals about health of the
workers.
Acutely Toxic Pesticides – risk management and reduction
Technical Advising Committee (CTA) discussions about technical strategies
related pesticides legislation.
Toxicological and ecotoxicological reassessment of hazardous pesticides.
Capacity building
Elaboration of many accords with Brazilian's State Environmental Agencies to
training in chemical safety, such as contaminated lands identification and remediation,
obsolete stocks of pesticides and other chemicals management and hazardous
chemicals emergencies attendance.
INFOCAP (Information Exchange Network on Capacity Building for the Sound
Management of Chemicals ) implementation
Pesticide Information System (SIA).
Details of person completing the questionnaire:
IFCS National Focal Point:
Yes
Marília Marreco Cerqueira
Name:
Special Advisor
Title:
Ministry of the Environment
Ministry
Esplanada dos Ministérios -
Address
115
No
Bloco B – 8º andar
CEP 70.068-900
Brasília – DF- Brazil
55 61 4009 1029
Tel:
55 61 4009 1759/1760
Fax:
Date:
marilia.cerqueira@mma.gov.br
Email:
Signature:
Please provide the following additional information:
Does the IFCS National Focal Point have direct access to the Internet in his/her office?
Yes X
No
If "No", does he/she have access to the Internet in the building where he/she works?
Yes
No
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