SENATE BILL: Ratification Resolution-Three UN Conventions (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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Sponsor: NC Yankee

Introduced for Sjoycefla. It is my hope that leaving these combined will help expedite the process and reduce the content of the queue. However, I do have concerns that the concerns of one, may scuttle the many if they remain so.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What this legislation would do is bring Atlasia in line with international standards on a variety of environmental issues.

-The Basel Convention controls international movement of hazardous wastes - basically prohibiting transfer of hazardous wastes from here to less-developed countries. 179 nations have signed and ratified it - Haiti and us have signed it but have not yet ratified. It basically promises that we'll clean up our own messes and won't dump all our hazardous waste in Mozambique or Chad or Zimbabwe or whatever.

-The Rotterdam Convention deals with international trade of hazardous chemicals. It basically says that if we ban a chemical we have to tell other nations that we did so, and if we plan to export one of those chemicals we have to notify the nation it's being exported to. We also need to label our hazardous chemicals and, when exporting chemicals, attach guidelines on how to safely handle them.

-The Stockholm Convention restricts the production and use of certain chemicals that can remain in the environment for long periods of time, accumulate in fatty tissues, and have adverse effects on human health/wildlife - cancers, birth defects, immunodeficiencies, etc.

[MaxQue]

As long none of these is forcing us to enter the REACH european regulations, it's totally okay with me.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

As long none of these is forcing us to enter the REACH european regulations, it's totally okay with me.

What is that?

[MaxQue]

As long none of these is forcing us to enter the REACH european regulations, it's totally okay with me.

What is that?

Some European regulations which is in fact instituonalised racket by big chemical manufacturers.
To send a "harmful" product in Europe, you need to register of the list of people transporting the product in Europe. But to register, you need to have very deep testing of the chemical properties of the chemical done by the manufacturer. So, you have to buy the data from the maufacturer (which is sometimes in the 5 digits).

In short, to register, you have to pay the "only representative", which is one chemical manufacturer. Only EU companies can be the only representative.

It's a racket invented by the German chemical industry.

[Napoleon]

I'll be supporting this.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

A vote can be started here this evening, after 8:34 EDT (7:34 EST).

[Gass3268]

This looks good!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Senators, this bill is now at final vote, please vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

[MaxQue]

Aye

[Sbane]

Aye

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

AYE

[Napoleon]

Aye (that makes six)

[Kaine for Senate '18]

Aye

[HagridOfTheDeep]

Aye

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Vote on Final Passage of the Resolution of Advise and Consent:

Aye (: Αverroës Nix, Ben, HagridoftheDeep, Kalwejt, MaxQue, Napoleon, NC Yankee and sbane
Nay (0):
Abstain (0):

Didn't Vote (2): Gass3268 and Snowstalker

With eight votes in the affirmative and none in the negative the Resolution has been adopted.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

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[Marokai Backbeat]

Assuming I sign such things...

x Marokai Blue

[Donerail]

Many thanks to the Senate and the President for their support of this important initiative.