Question & AnswerQ&A (DENR ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER NO. 2013-22)
The primary policy is to regulate, restrict, or prohibit the importation, manufacture, processing, sale, distribution, use, and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures that present unreasonable risk or injury to health or the environment, and to prohibit the entry and disposal of hazardous and nuclear wastes in the Philippine territorial limits.
It implements and revises procedures related to Republic Act No. 6969, also known as the Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990.
The objectives are to ensure the important aspects of hazardous waste management requirements for generators, transporters, and treaters are developed in a useful reference document and to streamline procedures for compliance with legal and technical requirements in light of recent developments.
It revises provisions on definitions of terms, classification of hazardous wastes, waste generators, waste transporters, treatment, storage and disposal facilities, storage and labeling, waste transport record, contingency program, personnel training, import of recyclable materials containing hazardous substances and export of hazardous wastes, prohibited acts and penalties, monitoring, and schedule of fees.
Chapter 2 covers the classification of hazardous wastes.
No, it prohibits the entry, even in transit, of hazardous and nuclear wastes and their disposal in the Philippine territorial limits for any purpose.
The Order takes effect fifteen (15) days after its publication in a newspaper of general circulation and upon acknowledgment of receipt by the Office of the National Administrative Register (ONAR).
The other sections or provisions shall continue to be in force as if the invalidated sections had never been incorporated (separability clause).
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has the authority to amend or modify the Rules, Regulations, and the Revised Procedural Manual.
The Revised Procedural Manual prescribing detailed requirements and procedures for hazardous waste management is appended and forms an integral part of the Order.