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Under Title II, DENR will:

• Develop an inventory of chemicals and chemical substances used in commerce in the Philippines.
• Gather information about the toxicity of particular chemical and the extent to which people and the environment are exposed to them.
• Assess whether these chemicals can cause unresonable risks to human health and the environment.
• Institute approriate Chemical Control Ordes (CCOs) after considering their potential risks against their benefits.

The objectives of Title II of DAO 29 are to:

• Inventory chemicals and chemical substances currently used in, manufactured in, and imported to the Philippines, and develop the Philippines Inventory of Chemicals and Chemical Substances (PICCS).
• Screen out those chemical substances that DENR determines to be posing a potentially unreasonable risk to public health, to work place, and to the environment; and develop the Philippine Priority Chemicals List (PCL).
• Require prior notification of new chemical substancrs to tbe manufactured in or imported to the Philippines, and significant new uses of certain existing chemicals; and develop a Pre-Manufacturing and Pre-Importation Notification (PMPIN) process and procedure.
• Evaluate the safety of notified new chemicals and chemical susbtances through the PMPIN process.
• Regulate, limit, gradually phase out, or ban those chemical substances that are determined to pose unreasonable risks to public health and environment through issuance of Chemical Control Ordes (CCO).
• Educate and inform the public on the hazards and unreasonable risks in the manufacture, handling, storage, transport, processing, distribution, use and disposal of toxic chemicals.