Strategic approach to International Chemicals Management: SAICM texts and resolutions of the International Conference on Chemicals Management

The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) is a policy framework for international action on chemical hazards. It supports achievement of a central goal agreed at the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development: to ensure that by 2020 chemicals are produced and used in ways that minimize significant adverse impacts on the environment and human health. The first session of the International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM) in February 2006 adopted the Dubai Declaration on International Chemicals Management and the Overarching Policy Strategy. The Conference also recommended the use and further development of the Global Plan of Action as a working tool and guidance document. The present publication sets out these three texts together with the resolutions and annexes of the Conference at its first, second and third sessions.