Exchange of Information on Banned Hazardous Chemicals and Unsafe Pharmaceutical Products

A/RES/36/166View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1982.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1980–1982

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1982	A/RES/36/166	Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products	588	12%Compare
1981	A/RES/35/186	Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products	1,635	15%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/173	Exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products	906	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Information Exchange Pharmaceuticals Toxic Substances

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the exchange of information on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products; 171 2.

Takes note also of the conclusions and recommendations in the report of the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations 17-' which was submitted to the Commission on Transnational Corporations at its seventh sess10n;

Reiterates the need to intensify international cooperation in the search for the solution to problems arising from the production and export of banned or severely restricted substances;

Urges Member States and other interested parties, including transnational corporations, to co-operate more

fully in providing data on banned or severely restricted substances to the appropriate organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system with responsibility for information exchange in regard to such substances;

Calls upon the organs, organizations and other competent United Nations bodies involved in disseminating information on this subject to ensure that the documentation they prepare is adequately suited to the needs of and clearly understood by all those engaged in processing, handling, dispensing or using all banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products;

Requests the Secretary-General and the organs, organizations and other competent United Nations bodies to provide, within the available resources, the necessary technical assistance to the developing countries, at their request, to help them establish an adequate system for monitoring the import of unsafe pharmaceutical products of doubtful therapeutic value and banned hazardous chemicals, on the one hand, and to train scientific personnel to handle these problems, on the other;

/ nvite s Member States to deal with this subject through appropriate means, including possible legislation at the national level, where they do not yet exist;

Once again requests the Secretary-General to consult Member States on the existing information systems on banned hazardous chemicals and unsafe pharmaceutical products and to report to the General Assembly at its thirtyeighth session through the Economic and Social Council.

IOI st plenary meetinR 16 December /98/

110 AIC.3/36/1 I.

172 EiC. I 0190. 171 A/36/255.

11 ' A/35/336.

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