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Consultancy Service for Software Development Support for Establishment of e-PIC System

Project Title

Consultancy Service for Software Development Support for Establishment of e-PIC System

Origin of Funding

UNDP Funded

Client

Ministry of Environment and Urbanization (MoEU)

Dates

January 2019 - August 2019

Project Details

“Consultancy Service for Software Development Support for Establishment of e-PIC System” Project has been implemented within the scope of the activity 5.1.2 of Component 5. “Institutional and Regulatory Capacity Strengthening for Sound Chemicals Management and Contaminated Sites”. This component covers technical assistance related to improvement of the general legal/regulatory framework and technical capacity for developing national chemical management framework. Within this framework, the overall objective of the assignment is to protect human and the environment globally as well as locally in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals.

The Ministry of Environment and Urbanisation is the Designated National Authority (DNA) to carry out the administrative functions (are related to IT system) required by the Turkish By-Law which is the harmonization of the Regulation (EU) No 649/2012 concerning the export and import of hazardous chemicals and Rotterdam Convention on the PIC Procedure. The Turkish PIC By-Law applies to industrial chemicals, plant protection products and biocidal products that are banned or severely restricted for health or environmental reasons.

The specific objective of the assignment is to provide software support for establishment of Turkish e-PIC system in order to facilitate the implementation of Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure of Rotterdam Convention for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade.

The scope of the assignment includes provision of consultancy services in the form of analysis, design, and development, testing of the e-PIC system and providing training to MoEU counterparts.

With below modules, Turkish e-PIC IT System has two independent interfaces, one dedicated to industry users, one to authority user (MoEU). It allows information to be securely exchanged between industry users and authority user.

Main modules composing Turkish e-PIC IT system are the following:

  1. Definitions Module
  2. Exporter / Importer Module
  3. DNA (Designated National Authority) Module
  4. Query - Reports Module / Functions