Authorised definition

The recognised body in the United Kingdom for the preparation of specifications for quality, performance or dimensions, methods of test, definitions and symbols, codes of practice, etc. British Standards are prepared under the guidance of representative committees and are widely circulated before they are authorised for publication. BSI co-operates in preparing international standards for rubber and plastics through ISO/TC45 and ISO/TC61 respectively. See ISO. 

Directive 89/107/EEC,1 sometimes known as a framework directive, contains a number of general safety and authorising measures concerning food additives. There is a definition of food additive as follows ... 

This is the name of what we used to know simply as the data sheet, or colloquially as the package insert. The SPC is the document that must be submitted in draft by companies to the MHRA/Reference Member State/European Medicines Evaluation Agency upon application for a marketing authorisation and, once approved, must then be provided to prescribers or suppliers of medicines, either with the product or at the time of promotion or within the previous 15 months of promotion of the product, written or verbal. The SPC includes the prescribing information for the product and represents the product licence approval for the medicine (see Section 12.2.1.1). It is the definitive statement between the competent authority and the company and, more importantly, is becoming the common basis of communication between the... 

Fume cupboards must be kept free from surplus chemicals and discarded apparatus. If stocks of noxious chemicals which are in frequent use have to be stored in a fume cupboard they should all be assigned to one which is set aside for this purpose and is properly fitted with shelving. Chemicals which are carcinogenic, but the use of which is permitted, are always retained in a main store in specially provided sealed cabinets definitive authorisation is required for their use. 

With regards to the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemical substances (REACH), it was noted that although there exists, with SAICM, a significant overlap in chemicals labelled as very high concern , some participants suggested that SAICM s definition could be broader in order to be more holistic. 

The final decision rests with the Commission but is to be taken after Committee procedure (Article 133), commonly known as comitology, in this case with the Regulatory procedure with scrutiny (EC 2006b), which basically means that the Commission has the unique power to draft proposals but that a member state committee, the Council or the European Parliament, given certain conditions, can block the proposals. In summary, these processes mean that there is no guarantee at all that a substance, which definitely meets the criteria in Article 57, will be listed.14 In practice, the listing may depend on resources and viewpoints among member states. At present, the candidate list contains 15 substances, of which 7 have been placed on ECHA s first priority list (ECHA 2009), as compared with the 1,400 substances mentioned for authorisation in the White Paper (European Commission 2001). 

For industrial processes, the authorisation process should be limited to instances when the reporting of monitoring data from point source emissions with a high potential for causing trans-boundary pollution cannot demonstrate adequate control - see Definitions in Appendix 1.1. 

REACH is very wide in its scope, covering all substances, whether manufactured, imported, used as intermediates or placed on the market, be that on their own, in preparations or in articles, unless they are radioactive, subjected to customs supervision or are non-isolated intermediates. Waste is specifically exempted. Eood that meets the definition of a substance, on its own or in a preparation, will be subject to REACH, but such substances are largely exempted from Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation. 

A Limited Announcement can be made for a new substance supplied at <1 tonne a, or to a restricted number of specified users for commercial development at above this amount for 1 year only. L.ess information is required for Limited Announcement for supply at <10 kg a, and even less for <1 kg a. Comparatively few new substances reach the 1 tonne a supply level, so most are authorised under the Limited Announcement scheme, although sometimes the full EC Base Set data are available to enable definitive and complete hazard classification and labelling and avoid having to label the substance as Caution Substance not yet fully tested . 

Each station has Operating Engineers who are designated Senior Authorised Persons (SAP), who can, within the definitions of the Safety Rules, prepare, issue and cancel Safety Documents. These Safety Documents are specific to the electrical, mechanical or radiological aspects of the power station, and can be a combination of all three disciplines. 

The definition of any authorised limits and operational targets for solid, liquid, and gaseous discharges and the measures to comply with such limits. 

Note that electrical permits to work should only be issued for work on systems that have been made safe. They should not be used to authorise live work since, by definition, live working is carried out on systems that have not been made safe. 

In the early to mid-1960s - the period of growing chemical use in Vietnam - the Army conducted a major ongoing review of its CBW policy. This study, codenamed Mandrake Root, was the most comprehensive study ever made to assess the potential value of chemical and biological weapons in support of land combat and to establish definitive requirements for weapons and protective equipment .Few details about the study have been published. It appears to have been an inter-agency study, comprehensive in scope, but somewhat uncoordinated with no clear sense of direction. This may in part explain the apparent confusion in the Vietnam War, over the extent to which authorisation of the use of riot control agents was delegated (see above). The study led to alterations to the R D requirement . ... 

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