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areas of the activities of the chemical
industry are included; some of the highly
specialised areas are given separate,
necessarily short, treatment, but always
with contact points for further
information.
Non-chemical
aspects of regulations, e.g. building
regulations, tanker design, details of
protective equipment, are mentioned
briefly but otherwise excluded.
Regulations describing manufactured
articles that include chemicals, and
voluntary schemes such as
‘eco-labelling’ and
environmental audit are not included.
This
Atlas will provide its users with an
overview of many areas that are often
dealt with separately, but are all
inter-related.
Clarification
For the
sake of brevity, no mention has been made
of the variations on the UK regulations
that exist for Northern Ireland; some
special provisions applying to Scotland
are mentioned.
Whilst
most UK regulations referred to or used
have been cited, it has not been possible
to quote every amendment or every related
EC Directive, though all major ones are
listed.
This
Atlas should not be used as a basis of
interpretation of regulations, for which
the only legitimate sources are Acts,
Statutory Instruments and official
Guidance from Competent Authorities or
their agents. Our sources have been the
Acts, Statutory Instruments and official
Guidance from Competent Authorities, and
books published by commercial
organisations. We have not referenced the
latter, to guard against any appearance
of endorsement.
Current
telephone numbers, fax numbers, web sites
and e-mail addresses are given where
possible.
A table
of the definitions of some key
abbreviations is provided.
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