7. Supports the WHO initiative launched in December 2001, through the International Program on Chemical Safety (IPCS), for improving both national and global chemical incident preparedness and response through the development of an early warning system and a programme of capacity strengthening in Member States;

7. Supports the World Health Organization initiative launched in December 2001, through the International Programme on Chemical Safety, for improving both national and global chemical incident preparedness and response through the development of an early warning system and a programme of capacity strengthening in Member States;

10. Calls for protection, prevention and shipping-lane monitoring programmes to be implemented in the most vulnerable areas which are at greatest risk from accidents involving chemical or petroleum products; calls on the Commission and the Council to submit to the IMO a coordinated proposal identifying sensitive shipping lanes along the EU's coastline, spelling out the need for 'zero' pollutants to be discharged and banning the carriage of hazardous goods;

62. Calls for protection, prevention and shipping-lane monitoring programmes to be implemented in the most vulnerable areas which are at greatest risk from accidents involving chemical or petroleum products; calls on the Commission and the Council to submit to the IMO a coordinated proposal identifying sensitive shipping lanes along the EU's coastline, spelling out the need for 'zero' pollutants to be discharged and banning the carriage of hazardous goods;

According to Article 15(2), ‘[e]ach Party shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that the public has appropriate access to information on chemical handling and accident management and on alternatives that are safer for human health or the environment than the chemicals listed in Annex III’, whilst, according to Article 15(4), ‘[n]othing in this Convention shall be interpreted as restricting the right of the Parties to take action that is more stringently protective of human health and the environment than that called for in this Con ...[+++]vention, provided that such action is consistent with the provisions of this Convention and is in accordance with international law’.

15. Asks the Commission to ensure that all chemicals produced in, or imported into, the European Union as substances, preparations, or in products above 1 tonne be registered in the new system, in order to obtain an overview of the basic properties and actual use of these chemicals from which to establish priorities for further risk evaluation and/or risk reduction; for chemicals above 1 tonne that are exclusively used in research and development activities or exclusively used as intermediates in manufacturing processes within closed systems that prevent all releases to the environment, a simplified registration should be envisaged consisting of a minimum standard of information concerning their hazardous properties in order to protect wor ...[+++]kers' health as well as the environment in the event of accidents;