Chemical Regulatory Updates: Middle East and Africa

Moderator

Sok-Han Ng

Senior Regulatory and Compliance Analyst, Enhesa Product

• What are current collaborative activities of countries at the OECD on:
  • The evolution of risk assessment
  • Risk management
  • Data exchange
  • Capacity building
• What are medium term prospects of future collaborative work?

Bob Diderich

Head of Division, Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

• Background (Kenya) ie. geographical location, population, etc;
• Overview of policy and legislations on chemicals management in Kenya;
• Promoting sound management of chemicals in Kenya - through multi sectoral committee /multi stakeholder forum; and
• Challenges

Griffins Ochieng

Executive Director and Programmes Coordinator, Centre for Environment Justice and Development

• an update on the UNEP project; and
• discuss how the project aims to increase the global implementation of GHS by providing long-term direct support to four African countries:
  • Ghana
  • Kenya
  • Nigeria
  • Côte d’Ivoire.

Olivier Baldan

SAICM Industry Engagement Specialist, UN Environment Programme

• Recent legislation support for Ghana, Benin and Tanzania; and
• New and upcoming capacity building activities and outputs.

Oliver Wootton

Specialist, Chemicals and Waste Management Programme, UNITAR

• What has worked well;
• Setbacks, challenges and what needs to be improved; and
• Our FOCUS for the future

Dr Sam Adu-Kumi

National Focal Point, Chemicals and Waste MEAs & SAICM (Outgoing), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

• The Concept of EPR; and
• EPR in the Middle East and Africa:
• Turkey
• South Africa
• The GCC
• Other

Emel Kasim

Regulatory Research Analyst, EMEA, 3E Company

Moderator

Nidia Mariana Calvo Mendez

Americas Managing Analyst, Enhesa Product

• Turkey KKDIK: what’s new
• Registration process updates:
  • lead registrations
  • co-registrations
• Main challenges in the registration process

Olesia Pochapska

Global Accounts and BD Director, REACHLaw, Finland

• SDS & e-SDS compliance for the Turkish market;
• PCN notification ahead; and
• Turkish SEA regulation and its provisions

Melih Babayigit

General Manager, CRAD, Turkey

• What to expect regarding chemical registration?;
• Chemical standards under the import reform; and
• What is expected this year regarding cosmetics?

Shimshon Roth

Regulatory and Compliance Analyst, Enhesa Product

• Overview of Middle Eastern chemical regulatory environment;
• GHS in Africa;
• Egypt;
• Israel;
• Kenya; and
• Rwanda

Michael S. Wenk

Senior Manager – Product Risk and Registration, Global Product Risk, Vanderbilt Global Services, LLC