Permanent permit for carrying out the activity of trade of dangerous chemicals

To pursue an activity, a registration and selection of an appropriate status form is required.

The activities of producing and storing hazardous chemicals and their trading and the use of chemicals may be implemented by legal entities and natural persons with head offices in the Republic of Slovenia or in any other member state of the European Union, whereby in the case of the latter, these must have a subsidiary, a natural person or a legal entity authorised in the Republic of Slovenia to act in their name and on their behalf.

Evidence

Extract from the Business Register (AJPES) the competent authority acquires it ex officio

Legal basis

• Chemicals Act (ZKem)

As per the type and scope of their activity, the providers of services relating to the production and storage of hazardous chemicals and their trading and the use of chemicals must employ professionally qualified staff with knowledge enabling them to implement obligations and fulfil determined requirements.

Legal basis

• Chemicals Act (ZKem)

Legal and natural entities who must obtain the authorisation for the production, storage or trading with hazardous chemicals, determine one or several chemicals consultants for the implementation of the act. The consultants must have appropriate education and passed the course and test listed in regulations on the production and storage as well as trading with chemicals.

A chemicals consultant must know the production or sales programme of a legal or natural entity for whom the chemicals consultancy tasks are performed, know the legislation and warn the employer about the requirements and their obligations, on regulations on the production, storage and trading of chemicals, consult the employer on other matters connected with the conditions for performing the activity based on regulations on the production, storage and trading with chemicals, represent the employer in administrative matters at the authority responsible for chemicals, cooperate with chemical consultants of other legal and natural entities who produce, store or trade with hazardous chemicals.

Details

The activity of trade in dangerous chemicals may be performed by legal and natural persons who demonstrate to the Chemicals Office of the Republic of Slovenia that they are implementing specific technical or organizational measures for trade in dangerous chemicals.

The measures include:

1. Compliance with restrictions on the marketing of dangerous chemicals in grocery stores
2. Appropriate user information
3. Measures for storage of hazardous chemicals

Observance of restrictions on trade in hazardous chemicals

Dangerous chemicals may not be placed on the market in food stores if they are marked as:

• acutely toxic hazard categories 1, 2 and 3 (H300, H310, H330, H301, H311, H331),
• germ cell mutagens, hazard categories 1A, 1B and 2 (H340, H341),
• carcinogenic, hazard categories 1A, 1B and 2 (H350, H351),
• toxic for reproduction, hazard categories 1A, 1B and 2 (H360, H361, H362),
• specific target organ toxicity for single exposure, hazard category 1 (H370),
• specific target organ toxicity for repeated exposure, hazard category 1 (H372).

Hazardous chemicals not listed in the previous paragraph may also be placed on the market in grocery stores, provided that they are separated from other goods and protected in such a way that their impact on other goods is not possible.

Appropriate user information

Legal and natural persons who place on the market as objects of general use dangerous chemicals, which are marked as:

• acutely toxic (H300, H310, H330, H301, H311, H331, H302, H312, H332),
• skin corrosives/skin irritations (H314, H315),
• cause serious eye damage/eye irritation (H318, H319),
• cause respiratory or skin sensitization (H334, H317),
• germ cell mutagenesis (H340, H341),
• carcinogenic (H350, H351),
• toxic for reproduction (H360, H361, H362),
• specifically toxic to target organs at single exposure (H370, H371, H335),
• specifically toxic to target organs from repeated exposure (H372, H373),
• Aspiration hazard (H304)

must have a reference to users in a visible place at the point of sale of these chemicals in accordance with Annex III to the Regulation.

The reference from the previous paragraph is in A3 size (420 x 297 mm), on a white background. Legal and natural persons trading in hazardous chemicals must provide the customer, at his request, with additional information on the meaning of the labels on the packaging, information from the safety data sheet or other general instructions on the safe use and handling of chemicals.

Measures for the storage of hazardous chemicals include:

• Storage classes
• Storage rules
• Technical storage requirements
• Organizational requirements for storage

and are specified in more detail in the Rules on technical and organizational measures for the storage of hazardous chemicals.

Legal basis

• Chemicals Act (ZKem)
• Rules on user information, register and the specific requirements for trade in dangerous chemicals
• Rules on technical and organisational measures for the storage of hazardous chemicals
• Restriction on the Use of Tobacco Products and Related Products Act (ZOUTPI)
• Rules on the requirements to be met by smoking rooms