Chemical Regulatory Updates: Middle East and Africa

Moderator

• 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?

• 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

• 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.

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

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

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

Moderator

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

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

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

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