RA 6969 Flashcards
Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act
RA 6969 is also known as?
Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act
Who signed the RA 6969?
Corazon C. Aquino
Approval date of RA 6969
October 26, 1990
It is the policy of the State to regulate, restrict or prohibit the importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use and disposal of chemical
substances and mixtures that present unreasonable risk and/or injury to health or the environment; to prohibit the entry, even in transit, of hazardous and nuclear wastes and their disposal into the Philippine territorial limits for whatever purpose; and to provide advancement and facilitate research and studies on toxic chemicals.
RA 6969 - Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act
means any organic or inorganic substance of a particular molecular identity, including:
i) Any combination of such substances occurring in whole or in part as a result of chemical reaction or occurring in nature: and
ii) Any element or uncombined chemical.
Chemical substance
means any combination of two or more chemical substances if the combination does not occur in nature and is not, in whole or in part, the result of
a chemical reaction, if none of the chemical substances comprising the combination is a new chemical substance and if the combination could have been manufactured for commercial purposes without a chemical reaction at the time the chemical substances comprising the combination were combined. This shall include nonbiodegradable mixtures.
Chemical mixture
means the preparation of a chemical substance or mixture after its manufacture for commercial distribution:
i) In the same form or physical state or in a different form or physical state from that which it was received by the person so preparing such substance or
mixture; or
ii) As part of an article containing a chemical substance or mixture.
Process
means the entry of a product or substance into the Philippines (through the seaports or airports of entry) after having been properly cleared through or still remaining under customs control, the product or substance of which is intended for direct consumption, merchandising, warehousing, for further processing.
Importation
means the mechanical or chemical transformation of substances into new products whether work is performed by power-driven machines or by hand,
whether it is done in a factory or in the worker’s home, and whether the products are sold at wholesale or retail.
Manufacture
are substances which present either:
1) short-term acute hazards such as acute toxicity by ingestion, inhalation or skin absorption, corrosivity or other skin or eye contact hazard or the risk of fire or
explosion; or
2) long-term environmental hazards, including chronic toxicity upon repeated exposure, carcinogenicity (which may in some cases result from acute exposure but with a long latent period, resistance to detoxification process such as biodegradation, the potential to pollute underground or surface waters, or aesthetically objectionable properties such as offensive odors.
Hazardous substances
are hereby defined as substances that are without any safe commercial, industrial, agricultural or economic usage and are shipped, transported or brought from the country of origin for dumping or disposal into or in transit through any part of the territory of the Philippines.
Hazardous wastes
refer to by-products, side-products, process residues, spent reaction media, contaminated plant or equipment or other substances from manufacturing operations, and as consumer discards of manufactured products.
Hazardous wastes
are hazardous wastes made radioactive by exposure to the radiation incidental to the production or utilization of nuclear fuels but does not include nuclear fuel, or radioisotopes which have reached the final stage of fabrication so as to be usable for any scientific, medical, agricultural, commercial, or industrial purpose.
Nuclear wastes
Imprisonment duration of RA 6969 is violated, section 13 a to c.
six (6) months and one day to six (6)
years and one day
Amount of fines if RA 6969 is violated.
Six hundred pesos (Php600.00) to Four thousand pesos (PhP4,000.00)
The penalty of imprisonment of ____ years and one day to ____ years, shall be imposed upon any person who shall violate section
13 (d) of RA 6969
twelve (12), twenty (20)
Cause, aid or facilitate, directly or indirectly, in the storage, importation or bringing into Philippine territory, including its maritime economic zones, even in transit, either by means of land, air or sea transportation or otherwise keeping in storage any amount of hazardous and nuclear wastes in any part of the Philippines.
Prohibited Acts (d)
