04 June 2012

China Ministry of Transport is now seeking public comments by 17th June for its new draft of “Regulation on Road Transport of Hazardous Goods” in attempt to replace the original regulation on road transport of Hazardous goods, which was issued in 2005.

[caption id="attachment_11064" align="alignleft" width=""]China REACh Workshop, Brussels 2010[/caption]This year has been a challenging one for the global chemical industry, with the revision of Chinese chemical regulatory frameworks. The Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) promulgated Decree No. 7 – ‘Measures on Environmental Management of New Chemical Substances’ (also known as ‘China New Chemical Substance Notification’ – China NCN) in 2009, which revised the initial 2003 Measures. The revised Measures came into effect on 15th October 2010.