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DRAFT REGULATIONS ON LICENSING FOR TOXIC CHEMICALS HANDLING
The Environmental Protection Administration recently announced a draft of Regulations Gov-erning Licenses, Registrations and Approvals for Toxic Chemical Substances, which is outlined below:
．The draft Regulations identify five activities involving toxic chemicals—manufacture, importation, sale, use, and storage—as activi-ties requiring the prior issuance of a license, registration document, or approval, as follows:
1.A toxic chemicals handler that handles quantities above the threshold for "large-scale handling" must appoint spe-cialist technical management personnel, and must apply to the competent authority for the issuance of a license or a registration document.
2.A handler that handles quantities below the threshold for large-scale handling should apply to the competent authority for the issuance of an approval document, but does not need to appoint specialist technical management personnel.
．When toxic chemicals are discarded, they may be returned to the original manufacturer or seller, sold or transferred to another party, re-exported, or disposed of in accordance with waste disposal legislation. However, before discarding toxic chemicals of Classes I to III, a toxic chemicals handler should register each batch with the local environmental protection authority with jurisdiction over the handling premises, and may only discard the chemicals after receiving notification.
．Before exporting toxic chemicals of Classes I to III, for each batch the handler should apply for registration to the environmental protec-tion authority for the location from which the chemicals are to be transported, and obtain a multi-part toxic chemicals transport manifest.