From March 2021 Pakistan has participated in a UN Special Programme that aims to give the Pakistani Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) the opportunity to strengthen its institutional capacity and to develop relevant legislation and a national policy for chemicals and hazardous waste management. This will clear the way for the adoption and implementation of the relevant Conventions related to chemicals, to which Pakistan is party. The Programme will terminate in December 2023.
Until recently Pakistan has been without legislation and policy documentation for the overall management of chemicals and hazardous waste. Currently there is no inventory for chemicals present in Pakistan.
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The Pakistan Environmental Protection Agency has recently published the draft Handling, Manufacture, Storage, Import of Hazardous Waste and Hazardous Substances Rules, 2024, in short the Hazardous Substances Rules, 2024. The draft...
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