This project follows closely with the amendment of the Toxic Chemical Substances Control Act (the Act), and its main task is to assist the following works related to the Act: (1) assisting to establish regulations about toxic chemical substance risk assessment and prevention management, (2) revision to regulations about emergency response to toxic chemical substance disaster or accident, (3) providing administrative assistance to works related to toxic chemical substance risk prevention policy program. The scope of the project includes regulations related to emergency response agency; emergency response personnel; mutual aid group; emergency response equipment and detection and alarm equipment; disaster prevention and response; emergency response vehicles management, etc. The main task in assisting to establish related regulations about risk assessment and prevention of the Act is to assist in building five new regulations according to the amendment of the Act; the main task in revising disaster response related regulations includes the revision of five existing regulations, among them there are another nine regulations related to risk prevention and three regulations related to non-risk prevention regulations. This project also provides administrative assistance to works related to toxic chemical substance risk prevention policy program and seven sessions of expert consultation meetings have been held before the submission of the interim report.

toxic chemical substances, emergency response organization, emergency response personnel, mutual aid group, emergency response equipment and detection and alarm equipment；risk prevention and response ; emergency response vehicles management