New Legislative Changes Concerning the Handling of Hazardous Chemicals and Chemical Mixtures

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Result language

čeština

Original language name

Nové legislativní změny týkající se nakládání s nebezpečnými chemickými látkami a chemickými směsmi

Original language description

Amendment to the Act No. 258/2000 Coll., on public health protection, which entered into force on 1 May 2020 has brought also several changes in the issue of hazardous chemicals and chemical mixtures. The most significant change is the deletion of long-used legislation abbreviations, such as "highly toxic", "toxic" and "corrosive" and the replacement of them by the terminology based on Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Furthermore, the requirements for the professional competence of natural persons for the handling of hazardous chemicals or chemical mixtures which were assigned the hazard class of acute toxicity category 1 or 2 have been modified. Finally, the third substantial change is the abolition of the obligation to draw up written rules on safety and health and environmental protection when working with hazardous chemicals and mixtures formerly named as highly toxic, toxic and corrosive. All three of these changes have provoked a response from the professional public and, to some extent, justified criticism, which is briefly summarized in this article.

Czech name

Nové legislativní změny týkající se nakládání s nebezpečnými chemickými látkami a chemickými směsmi

Czech description

Amendment to the Act No. 258/2000 Coll., on public health protection, which entered into force on 1 May 2020 has brought also several changes in the issue of hazardous chemicals and chemical mixtures. The most significant change is the deletion of long-used legislation abbreviations, such as "highly toxic", "toxic" and "corrosive" and the replacement of them by the terminology based on Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council. Furthermore, the requirements for the professional competence of natural persons for the handling of hazardous chemicals or chemical mixtures which were assigned the hazard class of acute toxicity category 1 or 2 have been modified. Finally, the third substantial change is the abolition of the obligation to draw up written rules on safety and health and environmental protection when working with hazardous chemicals and mixtures formerly named as highly toxic, toxic and corrosive. All three of these changes have provoked a response from the professional public and, to some extent, justified criticism, which is briefly summarized in this article.

Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Chemické listy

ISSN

0009-2770

e-ISSN

1213-7103

Volume of the periodical

115

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

3

Pages from-to

158-160

UT code for WoS article

000627121000007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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