MEP Order 22: Current Status and Future Direction

China MEP issued “Measures for the Environmental Management Registration of Hazardous Chemicals (trial version)”, aka MEP Order 22 in 2012. The Order then took effect from March 1^st 2013. An essential step in the development of MEP involved gathering data on enterprises’ environmental risk control capabilities in order to better assess and reduce the potential harmful impacts the chemical industry has on the environment. Ms. Jinye Sun from SCC-MEP gave a comprehensive introduction of the overall progress, catalogue of HCPECs, and detailed requirements of the implementation of MEP Order 22 during her presentation at REACH24H’s Chemical Regulatory Annual Conference (CRAC 2014) which concluded in Shanghai on 14^th of Oct.