High Production Volume Chemicals Programme
As a High Production Volume Chemicals (English, short and HPVC, HPV, and about chemicals that are produced in large quantities) those chemical substances are referred to, produced in large quantities, processed or imported. The exact definitions for this term vary in different states, usually considered as the limit 1000 tons per year.
Lists with HPV chemicals have been presented by various countries and international organizations such as the OECD. The aim of the relevant authorities is a particularly detailed study and documentation of the environmental risks of each substance classified as HPV.
OECD countries
Within the 29 OECD member countries will be held approximately 78% of global chemical production. The OECD classifies chemicals as HPV, when over 10,000 t / year are produced in a Member State or 1,000 T / year in at least two Member States. Since 1990, the OECD operates the creation of Screening Information Data Sets ( SIDS), the material data and information on the hazard or to contain exposure.
Germany
1986 has made a priority of about 780 HPV substances according to their hazard potential for humans and the environment, the advisory committee for environmental waste materials ( BUA) in the national Existing Substances Programme of the Federal Republic of Germany (NAP ). If a high hazard potential suspects in a fabric, so this was subjected to a detailed assessment process. After the release of about 260 BUA reports on more than 350 substances, the NAP was completed in 2007.
Other assessments have since been the German Chemical Industry Association ( VCI), the BUA to materials from the production volume range 100-1000 tonnes per year (Low Production Volume Chemicals, LPVC ) submitted for processing.
United States
In the U.S., the High Production Volume Challenge Program is concerned with the classification of the HPVs and documentation of any associated hazards. Substances are classified as HPV, if the production or import volume exceeds 1 million pounds ( about 450 tons ) per year.