A targeted assessment of the risk to human health and the environment should establish whether risk management measures and operational conditions for the use result into emissions and exposure of humans and the environment that are minimised to as low a level as is technically and practically possible. If that is not the case, conditions should be imposed to achieve this objective, as appropriate for each particular piece of legislation.
Principles for setting conditions for uses that are found to be essential for society:
• minimise exposure to human and animals and the emissions to the environment during production, use, end-of-life and recycling, including conditions limiting the quantity of the substance in the use42 in particular to avoid or minimise exposure of vulnerable groups such as children, pregnant women and elderly people, who are more sensitive to exposure to harmful chemicals.
• ensure incentives for innovation of safe and sustainable alternatives and substitution
o conditions committing to engage into substitution and to monitor the progress towards substitution (substitution plans), and
o a time-limit should normally be set for derogations from restrictions and authorised uses.
• ensure availability of information of the use in the supply chain and to consumers and waste operators.
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► I. OVERVIEW OF THE ESSENTIAL USE CONCEPT IN THE MONTREAL
► II. WHAT IS THE PARTICULAR USE TO BE ASSESSED?
► III. ASSESSING IF A USE IS ESSENTIAL FOR SOCIETY