Article 4: Responsibilities of the competent regulatory authority 1.
Preparing regulations, instructions and technical guidelines for the prevention of environmental and health risks resulting from mismanagement of hazardous chemicals and setting standards and requirements for prevention, safety and security for these materials. In making regulations, instructions and technical guidelines, and in setting standards and requirements, competent regulatory authorities may refer to international or national standards prepared by, for example, the Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the European Committee for Standardization (CEN), the European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization (CENELEC), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), or the British Standards Institute (BSI).
2. Evaluating requests for licensing of the works and practices mentioned in Article (3), issuing licenses for them, as well as for substances whose hazardous chemicals, such as consumables, are included in their composition after fulfilling the requirements, and conducting periodic and sudden inspections to determine the extent of compliance with the standards and requirements, and withdrawing or suspending a license when standards are not met. 3. Taking the necessary measures at the national level to prohibit and restrict the import, export re-export or trading of hazardous chemicals and cooperating with international bodies and organizations in this regard. Coordinating within the GCC States to harmonize, to the extent possible, restrictions and bans on chemicals. 4. Inspecting hazardous chemicals, identifying and assessing their hazardousness through specialized laboratories and specialized bodies as needed. 5. Establishing national databases on hazardous chemicals in terms of their chemical and physical properties and their hazards, providing accurate and continuous statistics on hazardous chemicals and issuing them in regular periodic publications, given the fact that they are extremely important in preparing information reports and in executive studies. 6. Reviewing all scientific and executive aspects of activities and practices concerning hazardous substances and monitoring compliance with all aspects of protection and safety for all the works mentioned in Article (3). 7.
Coordination with the concerned authorities within the state in analytical studies of pollutants, setting national standards and monitoring compliance with them.
8. Providing the concerned authorities with scientific and technical recommendations and proposals necessary to address the problems of pollution resulting from hazardous chemicals.
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