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Specific needs, obstacles and opportunities for non-EU countriesFranziska Hirsch,
Secretary to the UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention
Community of Users on Safe, Secure and Resilient Societies
Theme 1: Major Accident Hazards – Bridging safety and security policy and research
Brussels, 6 March 2018
Overview
1. UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention
2. Industrial safety & security linkages
3. Specific needs and obstacles for non-EU countries in the EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Western Balkans and Central Asia
4. Opportunities for non-EU countries
1. UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention
• Negotiated following the Sandoz (Schweizerhalle) accident in 1986
• Adopted in 1992, entered into force in 2000
• Designed to protect people and the environment against industrial accidents
• Focuses on transboundary cooperation
• Accidents of technological nature involving chemical substances incl. accidents caused by natural disasters
41 Parties (including the EU)
1. Application of the Convention
• Prevention of, preparedness for and response to industrial accidents capable of causing transboundary effects
• Cooperation platform • Article 14 – Research and Development
• Article 15 – Exchange of Information
• Article 16 – Exchange of Technology
1. Assistance Programme
• Supports countries in EU Eastern
Neighbourhood, Western Balkans and
Central Asia since 2004
• High-level commitments of beneficiary
countries
• Fosters national industrial safety
governance and policy-making, and
transboundary cooperation
• Strategic approch - Tools: national self-
assessments and action plans
• Needs-driven approach
• High-level meetings, expert workshops
• Sub-regional projects/activities
• Table-top and field exercises
• Multi-country, mulit-year projects
1. UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention & EU Seveso III Directive
• Convention covers accidents
involving hazardous
substances (manufacture, use,
storage, handling, or disposal)
capable of causing
transboundary effects, e.g.:
• Fertilizers plants
• Chemical plants
• Oil storage facilities
• Annex I of UNECE Industrial
Accidents Convention = annex I
of EU Seveso III Directive for
upper-tier establishments
2. Industrial safety & Security:UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention & EU policy/legislation
Prevention
Preparedness & response
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EU Seveso
UCPM (Union
Civil Protection Mechanism)
EU CBRN Action Plan
EU CIPDirective & Staff Working Paper
EU CBRN Action Plan & Centres of Excellence
2. Industrial safety & Security:EU CBRN & UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention
Objectives:• Knowledge of CBRN risks
• Prepardness for and response to CBRN security incidents• Internal/external links, engagement with partners
UNECE Industrial Accidents
Convention
Identification /notification of hazardous activities
Preparedness /contingencyplanning
Response/ mutual assistance
2. Industrial safety & Security:UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention & EU CIP
UNECE IndustrialAccidents
Convention
Prevention
PreparednessResponse
EU CIP Directive and Staff Working Paper
• Prevention, incl. risk assessment, management
• Preparedness strategies/ contingency planning• Response
• Cooperation with third countries
EU Seveso
Hazard identification & notification
3. Needs and obstacles for non-EU countries in EU Eastern Neighbourhood, Western Balkans, Central Asia
@Technical level:• Aeging facilities/equipment• Up-to-date knowledge/expertise, tools• Financial and capacity constraints• Training of operators, contractors• Insufficient safety culture
@Institutional level:• Lack of expertise• Imperfect legislative basis• Insufficient enforcement• Unclear division of responsibilities among institutions • Difficult inter-institutional coordination, with industry, stakeholders• Policy making across different policy areas: industrial safety, water, environment,
emergency response, CBRN-E, CIP, DRR, ….• Transboundary cooperation• Political priorities
3. Needs for non-EU countries
• Improving the safety of hot spots, such as
Tailings Management Facilities (TMFs) incl.
abandoned, idle, orphaned sites
Oil terminals
Pipelines
• Mitigating the risk of accidental water pollution with potentialtransboundary effects
4. Opportunities for non-EU countries
• Knowledge-sharing/transfer - EU/non-EU border, sub-regional level
• Enhance inter-institutional cooperation - national, regional, local levels
• Review legislation and strengthen implementation/enforcement
• Foster transboundary cooperation on a sustainable, long-term basis:
Land-use planning, joint contingency planning and exercises, test mutual assistance
• Benefit from momentum of EU association and pre-accession process
• Make use of synergies of related legal instruments:
UNECE Industrial Accidents Convention, EU Seveso Directive and UCPM
• Beware of the security-safety interface and related policy areas:
Industrial safety, CBRN and CoE initiative, CIP, Disaster Risk Reduction
4. Opportunities for non-EU countries• Capacity-development, making use of existing tools, methodologies and
approaches e.g. under Assistance Programme
• Build on existing project activities: disseminate results, replicate, apply
• Understand experiences of others and good practices; consider application
• Utilize research results
• Apply UNECE safety guidelines, good industry practices and checklists
@ national, regional and local levels
• Expand existing parterships among regional/international actors
• Use existing networks to share knowledge/experiences:
Community of users, involving national administrations, first responders, industry, research/academia, international organizations, public, stakeholders
Thank you for your attention!
Questions? Comments? Discussion?
More information:Web: www.unece.org/env/teiaEmail: [email protected]
Publications:http://www.unece.org/environmental-policy/conventions/industrial-accidents/publications.html
Contact:[email protected]: +41 22 917 24 80