Area: Zdravstvo
Competent authority: MZ
EZU URL: .nan
Initiative ID: 567
Initiative accepted and completed: '2015-06-18'
Initiative classified in EZU: .nan
Initiative forwarded in response: '2015-05-20'
Initiative published: '2015-05-20'
Initiative submitted: '2015-05-13'
Response from the competent authority: 'Response from the Ministry of Health:The Chemicals
  Act defines each of these activities (production, transport, use, storage) independently.
  Each activity related to chemicals is regulated independently under the Chemicals
  Act and as such is subject to the relevant administrative fee, which is, after all,
  also implied by the basic concepts of the Act. The specific exceptions when the
  fee is not payable (for own use) are set out in Article 44 of the Act and the explanatory
  notes in the form.  The Chemicals Office of the Republic of Slovenia is obliged
  to take into account the application (Application Form) of the applicant for a specific
  permit when issuing permits for various types of activities with hazardous chemicals.
  In Section II of the said form, the applicant may indicate, in addition to production,
  the other activities he wishes to carry out with the hazardous chemical. If the
  applicant chooses to manufacture only hazardous chemicals and not to sell them,
  it is likely that the applicant will use and store them for its own purposes, all
  for the purpose of manufacturing and marketing other products; in such cases, the
  Office will issue a licence only for the manufacture of hazardous chemicals. If
  the applicant decides to engage in marketing in addition to production, and indicates
  this on the form, the Office will issue him with one licence for which an administrative
  fee is payable in respect of each of these activities.The administrative fees charged
  for the issue of these licences do not cover only the costs of the work involved
  in the processing of these applications by the Office. The fees are paid into the
  integral budget, from which the Republic of Slovenia, through the Office, covers
  a number of complex and extensive tasks of protecting health and the environment
  from the harmful effects of chemicals: assessing chemicals and their risks to health
  and the environment, monitoring the presence of chemicals and their residues in
  humans, collecting data on poisonings, preparing and implementing legal measures
  and procedures, and many other professional tasks in this field.Essential oils may
  appear in the market and in use in Slovenia either as ordinary chemicals or as cosmetic
  products.The use of essential oils in the environment and in the environment is
  not only a matter of the time, but also of the time and effort required for the
  administration of the fees. In the latter case, their production or marketing does
  not require a licence, which is a mistake that would have saved the petitioner this
  cost. On the other hand, in order to sell cosmetic products, he would have to provide
  extensive and complex toxicological health assessments, which, according to the
  information available to us, are not significantly cheaper than the cost of the
  abovementioned authorisations. In any case, manufacturers have a duty to ensure
  the suitability and safety of the products in which they conduct their activities
  - in the case of cosmetics, directly through the preparation of assessments, whereas
  in the case of "ordinary" chemicals, part of this responsibility is exercised by
  the State.'
Text file: 567.txt
Title: Nonsense in the regulation of hazardous chemicals
URL: https://www.stopbirokraciji.gov.si/pobuda/?st=567
