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One-time permit for carrying out the activity of trade of dangerous chemicals

Legal and natural persons who trade in dangerous chemicals in the Republic of Slovenia must be licensed to trade in dangerous chemicals.

The permit is issued on the basis of the application and the submitted evidence of compliance.

A single authorization may be granted for a single trade in hazardous chemicals for limited quantities of hazardous chemicals intended for a limited number of professional end-users for a specific purpose, provided that the quantity of such chemical is justified and in accordance with the intended use. If the applicant is a legal or natural person who is not established in the Republic of Slovenia, the II. point of the form also for a branch or proxy.

A single authorization cannot be obtained for chemicals intended for general use.

The body responsible for chemicals shall keep a list of legal and natural persons who have obtained a marketing authorization for hazardous chemicals.

The activity of trade in dangerous chemicals may be performed by legal and natural persons who demonstrate to the body responsible for chemicals:

  • that they have their registered office in the Republic of Slovenia or one of the Member States of the European Union, whereby the latter must have a branch in the Republic of Slovenia, or a natural or legal person authorized to act on their behalf and for their account;
  • that, depending on the type and scope of activities, they have professionally qualified persons with the knowledge that enables them to perform their obligations and meet the requirements in accordance with this Act;
  • to implement specific technical or organizational measures for the marketing, production, storage or use of dangerous chemicals necessary for the protection of human health and the environment;
  • meet the requirements for facilities and the requirements for the scheduling and protection of individual groups of chemicals;
  • that they have not been deprived of a license to carry out activities on the basis of a final judgment of a court which shows that the holder of an authorization who is a natural person has intentionally misused the authorization to manufacture or trade special groups of chemicals regulated by the Strategic Goods Act of special importance for safety and health and the Act on precursors for illicit drugs.

Conditions

These terms apply to activity Wholesale of hazardous chemicals and chemical products

  • 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

  • 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

  • The applicant submitting an application for the acquisition of a single authorisation for production of hazardous chemicals, trading in hazardous chemicals, storage or use of hazardous chemicals must submit to the competent authority all the prescribed data on the relevant chemical, i.e.:

    • general data on the applicant,
    • trade name of the chemical,
    • labelling of the chemical,
    • safety data sheet and
    • chemical composition.

    Legal basis

  • 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

    Competent Authority

    Ministry of Health, Chemicals Office of the Republic of Slovenia

    Ajdovščina 4
    1000 Ljubljana