La Organización para la Cooperación y Desarrollo Económico, OCDE, ha publicado un valioso documento relacionado a las acciones para prevenir y responder a los accidentes producidos por el manipuleo de sustancias químicas consideradas peligrosas, incluyendo los incidentes producidos por eventos naturales pero que impacten en la industria, (Natural Hazards Triggering Technological Accidents (Natech) Risk Management).
Pursuant to Article 1 of the Convention signed in Paris on 14th December 1960, and which cameinto force on 30th September 1961, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) shall promote policies designed:
- to achieve the highest sustainable economic growth and employment and a rising standard of living in member countries, while maintaining financial stability, and thus to contribute to thedevelopment of the world economy;
- to contribute to sound economic expansion in member as well as non-member countries in the process of economic development; and
- to contribute to the expansion of world trade on a multilateral, non-discriminatory basis in accordance with international obligations.
The original member countries of the OECD are Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. The following countries became members subsequently through accession at the dates indicated hereafter: Japan (28th April 1964), Finland (28th January 1969), Australia (7th June 1971), New Zealand (29th May 1973), Mexico (18th May 1994), the Czech Republic (21st December 1995), Hungary (7th May 1996), Poland (22nd November 1996), Korea (2th December 1996) and the Slovak Republic (14th December 2000). The Commission of the European Communities takes part in the work of the OECD (Article 13 of the OECD Convention).
Fuente: http://www.oecd.org
