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Basic Information
ChAMP Resources
- Overview
- 2007 Commitments on Regulatory Chemical Cooperation
- Sharing - Plan for Progress and Results
- Commitments under SPP Made August 2007
Overview
The Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP) was created to implement commitments the United States made under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (SPP). Launched in March 2005, the SPP is a trilateral effort to increase security and enhance prosperity among the three North American countries through cooperation and information sharing. Under the chemical cooperation portion of the SPP, the United States, Canada, and Mexico are working together to ensure the safe manufacture and use of industrial chemicals. The partnership is building on each country’s ongoing efforts to assess industrial chemicals, make environmental and health information on them available to the public, and take risk management actions as appropriate.
On August 21, 2007, President Bush and his counterparts in Canada and Mexico announced additional steps that would be undertaken as part of the SPP; see the Joint Statement from the North American Leaders' Summit (PDF) (12 pp., 68 KB, About PDF). For more information on the countries’ August 2007 commitments, read the EPA's press release on the U.S.-Canada-Mexico partnership, and the partnership framework document.
2007 Commitments on Regulatory Chemical Cooperation
In Montebello, Canada, August 21, 2007, the three countries agreed to advance trilateral regulatory cooperation in the area of chemical information and regulation.
The cooperation includes:
- Exchange of information and knowledge leading to increased capacity-building
- Better alignment of country work programs
- Enhanced coordination of chemical assessment and management programs across North America.
In the United States, these commitments will be fulfilled through ChAMP.
The countries' leaders made commitments to support each other in improving science-based regulatory assessment and management of chemicals by regularly exchanging data, resulting from each other’s domestic regulatory experiences. In particular the countries will be working to develop mechanisms to share scientific information used in their regulatory processes including:
- Canada’s Chemical Management Plan
- U.S. High Production Volume Challenge
- Development and updating of chemical inventories and exposure and use information
- Research and development on new approaches to testing and assessment
- Mutual Acceptance of Notifications work program under the OECD Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
Commitments under SPP Made August 2007
New commitments to be achieved by 2012:
- The United States will assess and initiate needed action on 6,750 existing chemicals (based on preliminary statistics from 2006 Inventory Update Reporting data) produced above 25,000 lbs/yr in the United States through ChAMP.
- Canada will complete assessment and take regulatory action on the Canadian highest priority substances as well as initiate assessment of medium priority substances.
- Mexico will develop an information system for dangerous materials.
- The three countries will enhance appropriate coordination in areas including testing, research, information gathering, assessment, and risk management actions.
By 2020, trilateral cooperation will strive to:
- Establish and update inventories, in the three countries, of chemicals in commerce.
- Enhance capacity in Mexico to assess and manage chemicals.
- Soundly manage chemicals in North America as articulated by the World Summit on Sustainable Development Johannesburg Plan of Implementation
and reinforced under the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management .