SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK RECOMMENDATIONS

The corrosive and toxic properties of HF and corrosive and oxidising properties of H202 would mandate controls for consumer and professional uses to support the systems framework recommendations. 

Significant uncertainty exists in the current risk assessment of bisphenol A, which has led to the EU regulatory risk assessment conclusion that further risk data need to be collected, especially because it is a potential endocrine disruptor. Under the systems framework, recommendations would apply during the time necessary to collect further information on bisphenol A, thereby providing a... 

This Section presents NCRP s recommendations on a framework for a comprehensive and risk-based hazardous waste classification system. These recommendations focus primarily on the concepts and principles embodied in the new system. Approaches to implementing the waste classification system by specifying quantitative boundaries of different waste classes in the form of limits on concentrations of hazardous substances are discussed in this Section and in Section 6.4.5, and numerical examples are developed in Section 7.1. However, NCRP believes that the task of specifying such boundaries is properly the role of regulatory authorities, and specific recommendations on limits on concentrations of hazardous substances in different waste classes are not presented. 

The next Chapter exposes how without careful attention to particular issues during implementation the REACH legislative text is unlikely to deliver the recommendations identified in Table 4.6. Several examples are presented in Chapter 5 that illustrate how the strengths and weakness of the national approaches tend to hinder rather than facilitate EU decision-making. The proposed systems framework for decision-making under REACH then seeks to rectify these potential shortcomings of the legislation. 

The criteria for the recommendations proposed under the systems framework are based on scientific evidence and previous regulatory decisions that have been subject to rigorous EU legislative processes. It is therefore anticipated that these regulatory guidelines should also conform to international trade laws. Because the decision-... 

Table 6.2 Predicted voting for adopting the system framework regulatory recommendations...

Altogether, the systems framework demonstrates just how important the role of future TGD can be for the implementation of REACH. For instance, setting regulatory recommendations that apply... 

Under the systems framework, regulatory recommendations for professional and consumer products should guide regulators and industry through REACH. Companies would be able to develop recommendation equivalents that could incorporate a wider set of communication and management tools than currently envisaged under REACH. 

From Sect. 2.8.6, it is clear that FEP calculations for many systems of practical interest are expected to be computationally very demanding. It is, thus, important to develop numerical techniques that allow us to apply the theory outlined so far in an efficient manner. If properly used, these techniques make calculations better in every sense - i.e., they improve both their accuracy and efficiency. It is, therefore, highly recommended that they be employed in practical applications of FEP. Chapter 6 is devoted entirely to this topic. Here, we only give the reader a preview of a few issues that will be covered in that chapter. In addition, we will discuss two other promising techniques that fall outside the conceptual framework developed in Chap. 6. 

Fig. 2.1 Logical framework for organic production systems (redrawn with permission from Leifert et al., 2007). Shaded area represents agronomic practices prescribed or recommended under organic and other low input farming standards.

The prototype of QualAId currently in existence is one small part of the total framework needed for a useful expert system. The objective of QualAId is to provide advice on how much and what type of QA/QC is needed for various types of environmental analyses. The rules for determining these needs have been derived from the American Chemical Society (ACS) publication, "Principles of Environmental Analysis, (2) and from various protocols and recommendations of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 

The SubChem project aimed to improve comprehension of innovation processes in chemicals risk assessment and from these deductions to develop recommendations for action. The recommendations are not solely related to substance and technical iimovations and their framework conditions, but also encompass organisational and institutional itmovations within the scope of extended risk management. From experience gathered in the course of the SubChem project, the most important recommendations for the various actors in the innovation system can be grouped according to their distinctive roles. 

Further actions are recommended towards technology and strategic energy storage, however, within the framework of technical and economic viability. This means that a system analysis would be needed in order to reflect the entire energy supply situation of the transit country. Options are LNG, UGS, LPG, or other fuels for strategic reserves, both in the (nonproducer) transit country itself and in cooperation with other nations in the region. 

Recommendation 4-2. The Army should expedite obtaining necessary risk information so interested parties can compare the baseline incineration system and the modified baseline process. An important step for ensuring that the necessary risk information is obtained in a timely manner is the establishment of a comprehensive risk management framework. Such a framework would clearly identify the risk measures of interest and reflect the criteria specified in Public Law 105-261 and the NEPA NOI concerning a disposal facility for the Pueblo stockpile. 

Recommendation 4-1. Before the HRA is completed, the Army should work closely with all stakeholders to decide how the risk of a modified baseline process will be compared with the risk of the baseline incineration system. Such a framework should ensure fair comparison of both configurations as a basis for deciding on the acceptability of the modified baseline process. 

Insertion of new ligands into metallocomplex systems may proceed reversibly. Being reduced in the framework of the complex, these ligands lose the ability to be coordinated and leave the coordination sphere as products. One important example of such ligand sliding is the catalytic transformation of C02 into CO. Rhenium, palladium, platinum, and nickel complexes were recommended to catalyze this process (Hawecker et al. 1986 Du Bois Meidaner 1987). The Ni(II) complex with 1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane is preferential (Beley and co-authors 1984). 

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