Phare Twinning "Further Development of Chemical Safety"
Project:
Phare Twinning "Further Development of Chemical Safety", No. SI 03 IB EC
02
Time
Frame: 28.5 months (29.04.2004 -
15.09.2006)
Basic Characteristics:
Intersectoral project
(beneficiaries are different Slovene sectors and institutions with
competences in the priority fields of chemical safety: Ministry of
Health/National Chemicals Bureau, Ministry of the Environment and
Spatial Planning, Ministry of Defence - Administration of the RS for
Civil Protection and Disaster Relief, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry
of Labour, Family and Social Affairs, different inspectorates, National
Institute of Public Health, Institute of Public Health Maribor, Poison
Control Centre, etc.)
Follow up project of the
project Phare "Chemical Safety", No. SL99/IB/EC-04
Composed of two parts:
- Twinning (inter-institutional
cooperation)
- Purchase of equipment
Budget:
|
Financing the project |
Phare (European
Commission) |
Slovenia |
|
Twinning |
800.000 € |
300.000 € + VAT |
|
Purchase of equipment |
600.000 € |
200.000 € + VAT |
|
Total |
1.400.000 € |
500.000 € + VAT |
|
|
1.900.000 € + VAT |
Location of the Project Secretariat:
Ministry of Health/National Chemicals
Bureau, Mali trg 6, SI-1000 Ljubljana: contact person: Ms. Darja
Boštjančič, Slovene Project Leader, tel.: +386-1-478-6052 or 6946, fax:
+386-1-478-62 66, e-mail: darja.bostjancic@gov.si
The main signatories of the covenant on the
Slovene side: State Secretary of the
Ministry of Economy. Director of the National Chemicals Bureau at the
Ministry of Health; Ministry of Finance/CFCU, PAO;
TWINNING
Twinning Partners: Slovenia and
Austria
on the Slovene side:
Ministry of Health/National Chemicals Bureau as coordinator of the
Intersectoral Committee on Chemical Safety
on the Austrian side:
Chemicals Department of the Austrian Umweltbundesamt, Vienna
Note:
approximately 60 experts from about 10 EU Member States have been
involved in the project. During several short term visits to Slovenia
they have supported Slovene intersectoral working groups which cover
individual project parts.
Leading
of the Twinning:
on the Slovene side: Ms.
Darja Boštjančič, Slovene Project Leader, Ministry of Health/National
Chemicals Bureau, address as above;
on the Austrian side:
Mr. Helmut Witzani, Umweltbundesamt, Vienna;
Residential Twinning Adviser (RTA):
Mr. Andreas Littkopf, during the project in Slovenia
Project
assistant/interpreter: Ms. Kristina
Pahor
Project
Translator/Interpreter: Mr. Boštjan
Zmagaj
Steering Committee:
chairman Mr. Radovan Tavzes, Director General, Ministry of the
Environment and Spatial Planning; members: Ministry of the Economy,
Ministry of Health, National Chemicals Bureau, Ministry of Labour,
Family and Social Affairs, chairperson of the Council of Chief
Inspectors, Slovene Project Leader, Austrian Project Leader, Residential
Twinning Adviser; observer: Ministry of Finance - Central Financing and
Contracting Unit (CFCU).
Working elements:
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Horizontal
Intersectoral Compatibility of the Legislation -
exploration and elimination of gaps, overlaps and
contradictions among different acts and other pieces of legislation
in responsibility of different governmental sectors to increase
horizontal integrity and efficiency of the whole set of chemical
safety legislation; recommendations for improvements of different
individual acts (e.g. biocidal act), proposal for soft instruments
(guidelines and standards);
-
National
Programme on Chemical Safety –
finalization of the strategic national programme document and
of the corresponding action plans; actors and financial needs; the
document covers national priority fields in the area of chemical
safety: integrated chemical safety legislation, integrated chemical
inspection, chemical accidents, waste chemicals, safety and health
at work with chemicals, integrated monitoring of chemicals
pollution;
-
Toxicology/Ecotoxicology –
organization of an intensive 3-week training course in the
field of toxicology/ecotoxicology and some other toxicology training
courses (e.g. in the area of food safety); preparation of a
curriculum for a postgraduate study on toxicology; preparation of an
awareness raising media campaign concerning chemical safety;
-
Integrated
Chemical Inspection - training
of inspectors, samplers and laboratory staff concerning different
technical aspects to improve effectiveness of the enforcement
mechanisms and to harmonize the approach of different inspectorates;
joint inspections;
-
Integrated
Monitoring of Chemicals Pollution
(focus on water) - preparation of a proposal for linking of
the existing sources of water pollution monitoring data; preparation
of an organigram with a proposal for better data exchange,
recommendations for data harmonization;
-
Chemical
Accidents – advise on
harmonization with the last amendment of the Seveso II Directive
(especially regarding land use/spatial planning and quality of
safety reports); review and comment the prepared safety report of
one Slovene Seveso company; workshop on the European project ARAMIS
(risk assessment methodology); workshop on preparedness and response
of medical rescue teams in case of chemical accidents;
-
Waste
Chemicals - preparation
of a comprehensive guideline for operation of the sites for separate
collection of hazardous fractions of municipal waste (as examples,
three containers for separate collection have been purchased in the
supply part of the project for three local communities);
recommendations for public awareness raising campaigns on the local
level accompanying the separate collection of hazardous waste;
workshop for local communities (presentation of technical, financial
and psychological aspects of separate collection of hazardous
waste);
-
Safety and
Health at Work with Chemicals -
revision of the Slovene rule on carcinogens at
work place and harmonization with the last amendment of the
Directive; preparation of practical guidelines (e.g. on limit values
of chemical agents at work, for risk assessment of work place with
chemicals); presentation of the prepared guidelines in a national
workshop;
-
General
Activities - REACH conference
(at the beginning and at the end of the project), kick-off meeting,
national workshop in the middle of the project, final conference for
the presentation of final project results with broad national and
international participation.
PURCHASE OF EQUIPMENT
-
Waste
Chemicals - three example
containers for separate collection of hazardous fractions of
municipal waste for three local communities
-
Enforcement
and Monitoring of Chemical Pollution
- laboratory equipment for analyses of inspection samples and
samples for monitoring of chemicals pollution (equipment with the
capability to detect pollutants in very low concentrations,
equipment for the preparation of samples, system for temperature
control in laboratory systems etc.), recipients are two public
institutes;
-
Chemical
Accidents - software for
modelling the consequences of major industrial accidents; some
missing pieces of equipment for one mobile laboratory unit; CD with
a database on medical treatment of the intoxicated persons for the
Poison Control Centre; some stationary computers with higher
capacity;
-
Integrated
Chemical Inspection - lap tops
for inspectors from different inspectorates that are carrying out
the control over different fields of chemical safety (for the on
site use during inspections); software for classification and
labelling of chemicals.
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