Taiwan amended the Toxic Chemical Substances Operation Liability Insurance Measures and renamed it the Toxic and Concerned Chemical Substance Operators Liability Insurance Measures.

The Measures require operators to obtain liability insurance before operation if the total amount during the manufacture, use, storage, and transportation of toxic chemicals of the first to third categories or hazardous chemical substances of concern reach a specified benchmark. 
 
​Additional Information: 
https://gazette.nat.gov.tw/egFront/detail.do?metaid=112326&log=detailLog. 
 
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Taiwan issued amendments to the Toxic and Concerned Chemical Substances Management Law. The amendments mainly widen the source of control of chemical substances, add new management concerns to chemical substances, expand the sources of chemical substance collection lists and establish relevant classification principles. 
Additional Information:
https://enews.epa.gov.tw/Page/3B3C62C78849F32F/fa2c65a1-731c-4eda-9ff0-47b3e24639eb. 
 
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Saudi Arabia is expected to publish a national chemical safety program as early as mid-2020.

​The program will collect data on all chemicals used and manufactured in the country.

​It will further compile a national inventory used to develop new and strengthen existing regulations on the management of chemicals.
 
Despite Saudi Arabia’s 2006 law governing the import and management of chemicals (Royal Decree No. M/38) and the its ratification of the UN's Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions on hazardous chemicals and waste, the country has no national scheme currently in place. 
 
There is no additional information available at this time. 

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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), a six-country trade bloc, plans to adopt the UN's Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for classifying and labeling chemicals. In October 2019, Gulf Standards Organization (GSO), the representative standards body for GCC, published a draft to align its six member countries with the fifth revised edition of GHS.

The six countries include Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar. Each country must transpose the GHS standard into legislation which is projected to take two to three years. 
 
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