What are the rules and regulations related to the manufacture of chemicals in the country that your agency are implementing?

What challenges have you encountered in enforcing these rules and regulations?

What part or parts of the existing rules and regulations need to be updated or amended in order to enhance the security aspects of chemical management?

What are your organization’s mandates with respect to Chemicals of Security Concern, and which units/offices/departments/sections within your organization have direct governance?

What governnance or functions in the control of chemicals are being duplicated or has overalaps with other agencies?

How have you addressed these duplications/overlaps?

What specific regulatory processes are your agency implementing to ensure security and safety in the manufacture of chemicals?

*Regulatory process can mean permitting, performance standards, monitoring, reporting, etc.

What are your recommendations to address the challenges that you encounter in enforcing these processes to manufacturers?

Why do some manufacturers have difficulties in complying with your regulatory requirements for manufacturing chemicals, especially the MSMEs?

What are your methods to track that the manufactured chemicals are used for their declared purpose, especially those with security concerns?

What are your methods to detect, deter, or prevent malicious use of manufactured chemicals, especially those with security concerns?

What processes do you implement to determine and track incidents related to transporting chemicals (e.g. incident reporting)?

What gaps or weaknesses have you identified in your own processes in terms of controlling security risks during the manufacture of chemicals?

What are your needs in terms of resources (4M+1E) in order to effectively implement your mandates to control manufacture of chemicals especially those with security risks?

How do you capacitate or increase the competence of your personnel (i.e. through technical and behavioral trainings) to better implement your processes?

What systems (software, administrative, etc.) do you have to manage information on Chemicals of Security Concern such as manufacturing records?

What recommendations do you have for improving chemical management in the country from a security perspective?

Some standards even with low concentrations are still regulated.

Collaboration of all concerned regulatory agencies during the final safety and security audit before the chemical industry to operate.

BFP concern: regulation is on the facility manufacturing the chemicals, not the actual chemicals

*MSMEs: find it difficult to comply with DENR requirements

*Ano ang may problem - law or enforcement?

*Industries are willing to apply, but it appears that COSTS outweigh the BENEFITS

*Ease of Doing Business Law - to streamline requirement compliance process? How about conditional compliance?

*Problem of Bureaucracy

*Where do we draw the line in IEC, especially for dual use chemicals?

* Purpose of regulation: safety? regulatory? security?

*Need to fast track SB 2871 and its IRR (covering all phases of life cycle)

*Rationalize in what aspect? Requirements? Tier of chem? Reason of control?

*How do we ensure the integrity of companies? How do we ensure that they really use chemicals for their intended use?

*"Unauthorized" - punishable by law?

*Strike the balance between regulating and encouraging business?

capacity building of our personnel in the lens of chemical security risk

2. continuous research and development

3. streamline processes to enable a balanced list of chemicals in terms of national security and economic importance

4. capability building of stakeholders across the value chain

Data sharing of government agencies for us to analyze and improve the policies being implemented to the companies

Reference materials (e.g. international standards) that could be used in policy making

-PPA, Jojo

-PPA, Jojo

*Regulatory awareness

*NGAs and LGUs coordination

*Intelligence dissemination

*Close coordination among agencies