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8.updates On International Commitments - ggrsREV
8.updates On International Commitments - ggrsREV
Geri-Geronimo
Geri-Geronimo R.
R. Sañez
Sañez
Chief,
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Hazardous Waste Management Section
EnvironmentalEnvironmental Quality Division
Quality Management Division
Environmental
Environmental Management
Management Bureau
Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Basel Convention
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Updates
• National Report for 2014 was submitted to the BRS Convention
Secretariat as of December 2015
• 12th Meeting of the COPs to the Basel Convention (BC COP-12), 7th
Meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam (RC
COP-7) and Stockholm Convention (SC COP-7) [4-15 May 2015,
Geneva, Switzerland]
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
International Conference on Chemicals Management -
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management
(ICCM-SAICM)
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Updates
• Chemical Control Order for Lead and Lead Compounds
(DAO 2013-24)
– Setting a 90ppm threshold limit for lead paint
• 12th Meeting of the COP to the Basel Convention (BC COP-12), 7th
Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam (RC
COP7) and Stockholm Convention (SC COP7) [4-15 May 2015;
Switzerland]
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Updates
• The Philippines’ updated National Implementation Plan
(NIP) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) [2014]
has been submitted to the Secretariat of the Stockholm
Convention includes the “Nasty Nine + One”
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
2017 BRS COPs with High-Level Segment
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Vienna Convention for the Protection
of the Ozone Layer
• Ratified by the Philippine Senate on 17 July 1991
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Montreal Protocol
• Adopted in Montreal, Canada on 16 September 1987
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Acid Deposition Monitoring Network in
East Asia (EANET)
• Launched on 1998
• With 13 participating countries (including the Philippines)
• Activities under EANET are voluntary in nature
• EMB currently undertakes holding the following
monitoring activities
Wet and Dry Deposition (WD) in Sto. Tomas, Benguet; Los
Banos, Laguna; and Metro-Manila
Inland Aquatic Environment (IAE) in San Pablo, Laguna and
Ambuklao Lake, Benguet
Soil and Vegetation (S&V) in Makiling Forest Reserve and UP
Quezon-Laguna Grant in Laguna, including Remote S&V
monitoring in Itogon, Benguet every 3 years
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
APEC Chemical Dialogue
• Attendance to APEC-CD since 2012 to present
• Updating the Chemical Management regulations through the years
• Elimination of Lead in paints through the architectural, decorative and
household in 2016 and industrial use in 2019
• The reformulations of National Regulations for the implementation of the
Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for industrial chemicals
• Moving forward…
Continuing GHS capacity building and trainings (local and international)
(i.e. GHS Intermediate Training of EMB Regulators from Region 1 to 17
on 21-24 March 2017)
Linkages and initiating related GHS activities for improvement of
implementation in collaboration with DTI-BOI, SPIK, International
organizations, among others
GHS policy-related issuances and amendments (i.e. High Volume
Chemicals)
Building Block discussion and agreement led by DTI-BOI dated
December 2016
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources
ASEAN Working Group on Climate Change
(AWGCC)
Geri-Geronimo R. Sañez
Chief, Hazardous Waste Management Section
Environmental Quality Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Department of Environment and Natural Resources