Experiences in Central and Eastern European Countries on introducing new health and safety procedures and adopting EU regulation

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Experiences in Central and Eastern European
Countries on introducing new health and safety
procedures and adopting EU regulation

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Prague, 23. March 2006.
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Content of presentation

• Transposing EU regulations
• Hungary and MAVESZs preparation
• Hungarian specialities and REACH
• Size of the chemical industry
• Structure of the chemical industry
• Supply and demand
• Structure of companies
• Expectable REACH impacts

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Hungarian legislations on Dangerous Chemicals

• Classification, labelling and notification,
  67/548/EEC and 1999/45/EC since 1996, amended
  in 2000
• Inventory of existing substances published by
  National Chief Health Officer, 3853 items
  (substances and their aqueous solutions)
• Only 2-3 new substances notified

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Key messages from the former candidate countries
Sárospatak 2003

• Give more time to the whole process
• Orchestrate a comparable system on the global
  level
• Keep the system simple and cheap
• Avoid unnecessary paper work
• Make sure the supply chains are not interrupted
• Form Central Agency of higher power

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Ad-hoc Hungarian Committee meetings on REACH

• Committee members
• Ministries and Regulatory bodies
• Ministry of Economics and Transport
• National Public Health and Medical Officers'
  Service ( ANTSZ)
• Ministry of Environment and Water Management
• Industry
• Hungarian Chemical Industry Association
• Hungarian Cosmetics, Washing and Cleaning
  Products Association
• Gedeon Richter Pharmaceutical Work Ltd.
• NGOs
• Green Spider
• Clean Air Working Group
• Greenpeace

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Committee meetings

• Ad-hoc Working Party on REACH
• British-Hungarian proposal to the Council OSOR
• First two expert speeches on the REACH Hearing of
  European Parliament
• Taking part in PRODUCE strategic partnership
  program

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Hungarian chemical industry in the EU
Source CEFIC-MAVESZ
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Comparison of structures
HU
EU
Source CEFIC-MAVESZ
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Chemicals foreign trade balancebillion USD
Source CEFIC-MAVESZ
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Import from non-EU countries 2003
Source KSH-MAVESZ
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The Hungarian chemical industrys company
structure (NACE 23-24-25)
Company size Number of companies Number of employees (thousand) Production (B.Euro)
Number of people (below 20) 1328 5 0.1
Number of people (20-50) 182 6 0.6
Number of people (50-250) 183 18 1.1
Number of people (250-2000) 43 27 1.9
Number of people (above 2000) 5 21 3.6
Alltogether 1741 77 7.3
Source KSH-MAVESZ
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Expectable REACH impacts

• Closing down of the majority of SME-s in the
  chemical and downstream industries (500 800
  companies)
• Higher unemployment rate in Hungary (3-5000 at
  least)
• Stagnation in the chemical industry (3-5 years at
  least)
• Increase at price level in the chemical industry

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