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Exchange of Information on Banned Hazardous Chemicals and Unsafe Pharmaceutical Products

A/RES/36/166No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1980–1982
  • 1982A/RES/36/166Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical productsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1981A/RES/35/186Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical productsCompare with previous version
  • 1980A/RES/34/173Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 topics
Information ExchangePharmaceuticalsToxic Substances

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products; 171 2.
Takes note also of the conclusions and recommendations in the report of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations 17-' which was submitted to the Commission on Transnational Corporations at its seventh sess10n;
3
Reiterates the need to intensify international cooperation in the search for the solution to problems arising from the production and export of banned or severely restricted substances;
4
Urges Member States and other interested parties, including transnational corporations, to co-operate more
fully in providing data on banned or severely restricted substances to the appropriate organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system with responsibility for information exchange in regard to such substances;
5
Calls upon the organs, organizations and other competent United Nations bodies involved in disseminating information on this subject to ensure that the documentation they prepare is adequately suited to the needs of and clearly understood by all those engaged in processing, handling, dispensing or using all banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products;
6
Requests the Secretary-General and the organs, organizations and other competent United Nations bodies to provide, within the available resources, the necessary technical assistance to the developing countries, at their request, to help them establish an adequate system for monitoring the import of unsafe pharmaceutical products of doubtful therapeutic value and banned hazardous chemicals, on the one hand, and to train scientific personnel to handle these problems, on the other;
7
/ nvite s Member States to deal with this subject through appropriate means, including possible legislation at the national level, where they do not yet exist;
8
Once again requests the Secretary-General to consult Member States on the existing information systems on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products and to report to the General Assembly at its thirtyeighth session through the Economic and Social Council.
IOI st plenary meetinR 16 December /98/

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