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Life Cycle Assessment - An Operational Guideline to the ISO Standards (2001) Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment and Centre of Environmental Science - Leiden University, The Netherlands. 

Zwart, D. Monitoring Water Quality in the Future Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment, Department for International Relations The Netherlands. Vol. 3 Biomonitoring,... 

Bol J, Verhaar HJM, van Leeuwen CJ, Hermens JLM. 1993. Predictions of the aquatic toxicity of high-production-volume-chemicals. Part A introduction and methodology. The Hague (The Netherlands) Netherlands Ministry of Housing Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM). 

TNO (2006) Van der Gon et al. Study to the effectiveness of the UNECE persisitent organic pollutants (POP) protocol and costs of additional measures (Phase II Estimated emission reduction and cost of options for a possible revision of the POP Protocol) July 2006, prepared for Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment 2006-A-R0187/ B, order no. 35096 (cited by [3])... 

Veesghooe MA, Heebee REM, Van Hemmen J, WiBOwo AAE and Zielhuis RL (1987) Renal function of workers with low-level cadmium exposure. Scand J Work Environ Health 13 232-238. Veom (1999) Cadmium Decree 1999 (Chemical Substances Act) Rules for the Manufacture and Sales of Products Containing Cadmium. The Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and The Environment, The Hague, the Netherlands. 

An important measure is the introduction of a statutory one-cdl system (Staatsblad 2008). This by law laid down system came into force in 2008 and replaced the old voluntary one-caU system. The Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (VROM) asked the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) to estimate the influence of the statutory one-caU system on the risk of high-pressure natural gas pipelines. The derivation of this estimate is described in more detail in Laheij et al. 2008a and Laheij et al. 2008b. In this paper an outline of the derivation is given. 

The overfill protection is installed additional to the current safety and engineering standard as described in Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment 2005. Therefore, the measure can be valued. 

ABSTRACT A procedure was set up to derive, evaluate and formalize piobit functions for use in quantitative risk analysis in the framework of external safety in the Netherlands. Probit functions for substances are either derived under the authority of RIVM or by an interested party such as industry. The method for deriving human probit functions from animal toxicity data was laid down by a newly installed scientific expert panel. Proposed probit functions are subject to a puhUc comment period. Next, the probit functions are scientifically evaluated by the expert panel. If a probit function is approved on scientific grounds, the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment decides if and when it will be implemented, taking the results of a consequence analysis into account. This paper presents the current state of affairs regarding the derivation, evaluation and formalization of new and revised probit functions. 

A table with zoning distances was presented to the Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment in April 2008. The Ministry has communicated this table with instructions for use until the new legislation will be in place (Ministry ofVROM 2008). This table is based on the individual risk contours of 10 per year which have been calculated using the revised QRA method. 

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