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REACH-IT RIP RRS SAICM REACH-Information Technology REACH implementation project(s) Risk reduction strategy(ies) UNEP Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management... 

Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management - www.unep.ch/saicm United Nations Industrial Development Organization - Cleaner Production Programme, w w w. u n i d . rg/cp... 

UNEP (2006) Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management. UNEP, http //www.saicm.org/ documents/saicm%20texts / SAICM publication ENG.pdf (last accessed 15 September 2011). 

UNEP Governing Council, Decision SS.VII/3 Strategic approach to international chemicals management, Seventh Special Session, February 2002 (available at http //www.chem.unep.ch/irptc/strategy/default.htm). 

Within the first decade of the twenty-first century and beyond, 13000 metric tons of additional mercury wUl become available from conversion and shutdown of chloro-alkali plants using the mercury process, as the EU press for a phase-out of this process before 2010. It is agreed with the Minas de Almaden (Spain) that they buy this surplus of mercury and put it on the market in place of the mercury that Almaden would otherwise have mined (UNEP 2002). Moreover, large strategic national reserve stocks of mercury, such as 4435 metric tons in the USA, become superfluous and wait to... 

International institutions, such as the OECD and UNEP, are strategically addressing CSM. 

UNEP (2002). Report on the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (UNEP/CBD/COP/20/Part 2) Strategic Plan Decision VI/26. Available at http //www.cbd.int. 

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