Israel Reach Regulation for Various Sectors
Pesticides used in agriculture and public health make up a major portion of all chemicals used in Israel. To maintain environmental health and safety, the use of these pesticides is closely monitored. The Plant Protection and Inspection Service of the Ministry of Agriculture oversees the registration and control of pesticides for plant protection, which account for the vast majority of pesticides used in Israel. The Ministry of Agriculture's Veterinary Services uses the same procedure to register pesticides for veterinary usage. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health oversee pesticide residue monitoring.
Following provisional clearance for limited use, the pesticide registration procedure begins with two years of testing and inquiry. An advisory committee comprised of representatives from several ministries, including Environmental Protection, Health, Industry, Trade and Labor, as well as consumer representatives, decides whether to approve the product for final registration once comprehensive toxicological data has been gathered. Environmental impact, durability, risk to groundwater, and other aspects are all considered while evaluating materials.
The Plant Protection and Inspection Services' Pesticides Division has developed requirements for submitting a toxicological file to the inter-ministerial committee for pesticide use coordination for registration purposes. The requirements are based in significant part on European Directive 91/414/EC on the marketing of plant protection products.
Pesticides for public health use have a different registration process than pesticides for agricultural use. Israel's regulations, which were enacted in 1994, adhere to high international standards and require applications for the registration of novel molecules, new formulations, renewals, and changes of name, label, and packaging, among other things. According to the laws, the official in charge of pesticide registration must meet with an inter-ministerial professional committee made up of representatives from the Environment and Health Ministries. Applications must include a description of the pesticide's composition, a copy of the proposed label, a toxicological dossier on the chemical's impact on humans, the environment, flora and fauna, a material safety data sheet, and other documents.
During an emergency, the Hazardous Substances Information and Reaction Center supports response teams. It makes assessments based on information from the field, such as location, hazardous substance type, incident type (including spills, odours, fires, explosions, and transportation-related accidents, among other things), and, in some cases, data collected previously on materials on site and scenarios.
The Center employs both electronic databases, which include information sheets on accident response, and software for accident analysis involving hazardous compounds. Estimates are provided in minutes using software that calculates the dispersion range of contaminants in the atmosphere. Other forms of software aid in the computation of flammable and explosive substance risk ranges.
Permit denial examinations - the permit will be expanded once at regular intervals for each enlisted compound arrangement. The permit holder should offer the research center logical norm and test readiness and definition consequently. The proposition for another plan will be made once in every nine years for an extensive viability test in Israeli conditions. Gifted refreshed writing which validates the proficiency of the pesticide should be given for each permit recharging application.
The 2021 enrollment charge is $4,000, or up to the most noteworthy expense that can be approved by an individual registrant. Any pesticide registrant will, by Friday 15 January 2021, pay the yearly charge and send an answer to the EPA by email. Enlistments not charged by charge, by request and without a consultation would be dropped. The base discipline could be multiplied to evaluate the second or extra wrongdoings at the base punishment stage.
When Israel joined the OECD in 2010, the country committed to establishment of a national procedure for registering chemicals. There is only partial regulation of the use of chemicals in Israel and the existing regulation is distributed among various government ministries and does not include a systematic evaluation of industrial chemicals. Israel is the only OECD country that does not have a register of industrial chemicals present in the country, their quantities, and uses and, furthermore, there is no clear picture of the existing regulation regarding each chemical.
In Israel, chemicals are regulated by two laws: The Hazardous Substances Law 5753-1993 and the Industrial Chemicals Registering Law, 5781-2020. The responsible authority is the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP).
Hazardous substance Law 5753-1993
The Hazardous Substances Law regulates the classification of hazardous substances, in accordance to their use, degree of toxicity or risk as well as the manufacture, import, export, packaging, commerce, issue, transfer, and storage maintenance. Companies should apply for a hazardous materials permit before handling hazardous substances in Israel. The permit is valid for a certain amount of time: 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, and +3 years.
Industrial Chemicals Registering Law, 5781-2020
On 1 October 2020 the Israelian Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) published the draft law titled ‘Industrial Chemicals Registering law 5781-2020’. The law was notified to the World Trade Organization on 6 January 2021. The law promotes the establishment of a procedure for registering industrial chemicals with the aim to reduce the harmful effects on human health and the environment. The procedure proposed in the law is based on the following components:
- Establishes a Chemical Inventory Registry
- Provides guidelines for performing risk assessment on selected chemicals.
- Provides guidelines for risk management by setting rules restricting the use of chemicals and/or exposure to them.
- Sets the authorities and power given to the registrar and to the Chemical Evaluation Advisory Committee.
Manufacturers and importers of industrial chemicals (above 10 TPA) will be required to report to the online Chemicals Registry at the MEP with following information:
- the chemical properties
- risk characteristics
- uses
- annual quantity produced or imported
- Safety Data Sheet (SDS)
Risk assessments will be conducted for chemicals if:
- they have a high risk level
- their scope of use is wide
- their potential for exposure to the public and sensitive populations is high
The MEP of Israel will publish the list of chemicals with a high priority for risk assessment for public comment.
The law is expected to enter into force on 1 March 2023, and the establishment of the Chemical Inventory Registry should be completed and launched by 1 September 2024. However, the law was not approved as scheduled by the end of 2021 so this timeline may be delayed.
On 9 August 2019 Israel implemented the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of classifying and labelling chemicals, Parts 1 and 2 of standard SI 2302, with a 3-year transition period ending on 9 August 2022. The law status of Part 1 is formal and for Part 2 it is partly formal.
Part 1 of SI 2302 (Dangerous substances and mixtures: Classification, labelling, marking, and packaging) is based on the EU CLP regulation implementing the GHS. Part 2 of SI 2302 deals with the transportation of dangerous substances and mixtures (Dangerous substances and mixtures: Transportation-Classification, labelling, marking and packaging). Hazardous chemicals in Israel are regulated by the Hazardous substance Law 5753-1993. After the implementation of GHS, it can be expected that more products are to be classified as hazardous and have GHS-style labelling requirements.
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