Emission scenario documents

Many other OECD activities on hazard/risk assessment are undertaken within programs such as Existing Chemicals, New Chemicals, and Pesticides and Biocides, which deal with specific types of chemicals. The work on exposure assessment methods is undertaken by the Task Force on Environmental Exposure Assessment, consisting of experts. Most of the outcome of this work is published in the Series on Testing and Assessment or in Emission Scenario Documents, which are available at the OECD Web site (OECD 2006a). 

OECD. 2000a. Guidance Document on Emission Scenario Documents. OECD Series On Emission Scenario Documents No 1. Environment Directorate, Joint Meeting of the Chemicals Committee and the Working Party on Chemicals, Pesticides and Biotechnology. ENV/JM/MONO(2000)12. Paris OECD. 

The INERIS emission scenario document Biocides in paper coating and finishing . 

ECB. 2003b. Technical guidance document on risk assessment in support of Commission Directive 93/67/EEC on risk assessment for new notified substances Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1488/94 on risk assessment for existing substances Directive 98/8/ EC of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning the placing of biocidal products on the market. Part IV. Emission scenario documents. Ispra (IT) European Commission-Joint Research Centre, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Chemicals Bureau (ECB), Chap 7. 

OECD] Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. 2002b. Emission scenario document on textile finishing industry. Paris Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Environment Directorate. 

Recently, OECD work has focused on exposure assessment including estimation of emission, monitoring, and modeling. Important products are the OECD Emission Scenario Documents (ESDs). 

Emission Scenario Documents on Wood Preservatives, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 (2003). 

OECD (2004) Emission scenario document on plastics additives, OECD series on emission scenario documents number 3... 

Supplement to the methodology for risk evaluation of biocides. Emission scenario document for product type 2 Private and public area disinfectants and other biocidal products (sanitary and medical sector). 

Emission scenario document on drinking water disinfectants (Product type 5). 

OECD Series on Emission Scenario Documents Number 2 Emission scenario document for wood preservatives, part 1-4 (Product type 8)... 

Supplement to the methodology for risk evaluation Proposal for the formats of names, parameters, variables, units and symbols to be used in emission scenario documents Assessment of human exposures to biocides (first report, 1998)... 

The wood preservative emission scenario document is nearly complete and the OECD programme is now preparing emission scenarios for antifouling products. 

The safe management of chemicals in the EU is based on the stepwise approach illustrated in Figure 23-3. In April 1996 a Technical Guidance Document was pub-lished to provide guidance on the risk assessment of both notified substances (as required under Commission Directive 93/67/EEC) and existing substances (under EC Regulation No. 1488/94) This guidance document deals with the risk assessment for human health and the environment, and covers also the use of (quantitative) structure-activity relationships. Of particular importance for the outcome of the risk assessment are the emission scenario documents, especially with respect to the default values, which will he applied if experimental data are not available. 

Institute for Health and Consumer Protection/Joint Research Centre. The new EUSES 2.1.2 version (2012) is an update of BUSES 2.1, containing all emission scenario documents for biocides, 2012 available at http // ihcp.jrc.europa.eu. 

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