Law No. 1420-IIs on hazardous chemical substances.

This Law regulates the development, testing, standardization, registration, production, packing, marking and labelling, transportation, use, export and import, processing, rendering harmless, prohibition and elimination of hazardous chemical substances. It also establishes the rules for state and department supervision over such substances. The purposes of the Law shall be: (a) regulate the legal relationship between authorities and natural and legal persons (regardless of the property or organizational or legal type) regarding the safe use of hazardous chemical substances; (b) prohibit the unsystematic or unauthorized use of hazardous chemical substances; (c) require the identification and registration of hazardous chemical substances; (d) regulate the use of hazardous chemical substances and prevent their harmful effects on human health and the environment; (e) regulate the notification processes for hazardous chemical substances intended for sale, their testing and official expertise, standardisation, registration, packing, marking, import and export; and (f) keep the population informed and raise public awareness regarding the risks of hazardous chemical substances. In order to appraise their effects on human health and the environment, the classes of toxicity and risks of hazardous chemical substances are specified.