Regional safety Europe

I think that we would do the allied war command an injustice, if we accuse them of such a barbarous decision, from the viewpoint of a present-day man. Indeed, it was necessary to annihilate the chemical weapons as soon as possible, lest anybody felt a wish to use them. At that time, however, methods of destroying contaminants in chemical plants with the observance of rules of safety procedures were not available. Even now, half a century later, there are no developed and completely reliable broad-scale technologies for the industrial destruction of war contaminants. Both concealment in deep mines and combustion of contaminants have more harmful effects on nature and mankind when compared to sinking these at a considerable depth. One important point to remember is also that German depots of chemical weapons were located in densely populated regions of Europe therefore, the chosen method for getting rid of chemical ammunition was apparently the best. 

These two cases, and other examples could easily be mentioned from both land and air transport (e.g. operator working times), road traffic regulations, the environment (chemicals, soil emissions), construction and certification of airframes, emphasise consistent cultural traits that create differences between ways of regulating safety in different regions of Europe. 

Highway. Rock salt, solar salt, and in some cases in Europe, evaporated salt are used to maintain traffic safety and mobiUty during snow and ice conditions in snowbelt regions throughout the world. Sodium chloride melts ice at temperatures down to its eutectic point of —21.12°C. Most snowstorms occur when the temperature is near 0°C, where salt is very effective. More than 40% of dry salt produced in the United States is used for highway deicing. 

The most active -butyraldehyde derivatives are expected to be PVB, as more regions require automotive safety glass, and trimethylolpropane. Overall annual growth in -butyraldehyde through 1993 is expected to be 0.9% in the United States and 1.2% in Japan. No growth in -butyraldehyde consumption is expected in Western Europe through 1993. 

Helsing E, Dukes MNG. The Safety of Stable Iodine When Used to Provide Protection against Nuclear Fallout. Internal Advisory ReportCopenhagen WHO Regional Office for Europe . 1986. 

Chemicals regulations and labelling in the countries of Central East Europe were relatively weakly developed before their preparations for membership in the European Union (EU) and largely incompatible with EU standards (Regional Environmental Center 1996). Yet, within 10 years of pre-accession preparations these states fully adopted EU chemical safety regulations, which are considered to be among the most complex and advanced in the world. What explains the smooth diffusion of EU chemical safety regulations to the new member states despite the economic and administrative costs entailed ... 

The ChemLeg program, in turn, focused on closer cooperation between policy makers, industry experts and national federations to facilitate the implementation of these standards. The main indicators of achievement were the enlargement of CEFIC with new full and associate CEFIC members representing nine of the ten Central and Eastern Europe states that subsequently joined the European Union the creation of an influential regional network of chemical industry and active involvement in European advocacy on the part of federations from Central and Eastern Europe (Doktor 2002). The political dynamics of trans-European industry mobilisation, organisation at the domestic and European level, and alliances with supranational and domestic policy elites and experts developed in full swing and in support of the horizontal diffusion of EU chemical safety policies and norms. 

Since 1991, the International Congress of Harmonization (ICH 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively, taking place in 1991, 1993, 1995, and 1997) has met to promote harmonization of regulatory requirements between its regions (Japan, US, and Europe) on Safety, Quality, and Efficacy of human pharmaceuticals. Both regulatory authorities and industry associations were involved in these discussions. 

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