Australia - Implementing reforms to the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS)

Department of Healthhas issued the Consultation Paper outlines the overarching framework for the reform of industrial chemicals regulation in Australia. The reforms address the problems with the existing regulatory framework for the regulation of industrial chemicals, identified though the 2008 Productivity Commission Research Report on Chemicals and Plastics Regulation and the 2014 Department of Health review of the role of National Industrial Chemical Notification and Assessment Scheme within the broader institutional and regulatory framework for chemicals regulation.

If agreed by Government, the reforms will be given effect through changes to primary and delegated legislation.

Proposed date of adoption: July 2017

Proposed date of entry into force: 1 July 2018

Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

If the Proposal/Notification/Regulation will affect your International Business please send us your representation with facts and figures before 20 February 2016, so that these can be taken up suitably.