Toxic and Concerned Chemical Substances Control Act｜第 3 條｜化學物質管理｜Act｜In Force
第 一 章｜環境部｜v1.0
Last Amended: 2019-01-16
The Terms used in this Act are defined as follows. I.“Toxic chemical substances” means those chemical substances that are intentionally produced by human activity or unintentionally derived from production processes and that have been officially announced by the central competent authority as having toxicity subject to the following classification regulations. Toxic chemical substances shall be classified as follows. A.Class 1 toxic chemical substances: those chemical substances that are not prone to decompose in the environment or that pollute the environment or endanger human health due to bioaccumulation, bioconcentration or biotransformation. B.Class 2 toxic chemical substances: those chemical substances that cause tumors, infertility, teratogenesis, genetic mutations or other chronic diseases. C.Class 3 toxic chemical substances: those chemical substances that endanger human health or the lives of biological organisms immediately upon exposure. D.Class 4 toxic chemical substances: those chemical substances that have endocrine disruptor properties, environmental pollutants or chemicals which endanger human health. II. "Concerned chemical substances" refers to chemical substances aside from toxic chemical substances, that have been officially announced by the central competent authority to pollute the environment or are a suspected threat to human health based on substance characteristics or public consumer issues of domestic or foreign concern and are controlled by the central competent authority. III.“Existing chemical substances” refers to those chemical substances that are listed in the chemical substance inventory issued by the central competent authority after consultation with the government authorities in charge of subject industry. IV.“New chemical substances” refers to chemical substances that are not included in the existing chemical substance inventory. V.“Handling” refers to such activities as the manufacture, import, export, sale, transport, use, storage or discarding of chemical substances. VI.“Pollution of the environment” refers to an alteration of the quality of air, water or soil due to the handling of chemical substances such that it causes an impact on the normal use of the air, water or soil, destruction of the natural ecology or damage to property. VII. “Release quantity” refers to the total quantity of a chemical substance that is dispersed into the air, water or soil due to handling.