Background paper

Chemicals Management in the Electronics Sector

Report Back to Stakeholders on the Potential Role of SMOC

Description

At the 2008 Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC) stakeholder meeting in Tucson, Arizona, stakeholders expressed an interest in chemicals management in the electronic and electrical equipment (EEE) sector. Knowing that the CEC’s Trade and Environment Program was already looking at this issue through their Clean Electronics Pollution Prevention Partnership (CEP3), the SMOC Working Group (WG) committed to exploring whether there was a unique role that it could contribute to the Trade and Environment Program efforts.