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Budapest Declaration



Newsletter of the Budapest Regional Centre

Editor:

I. Damjanovich

Editorial Board:

I. Damjanovich
G. Cseh

This publication was designed by the UN/ECE Regional Coordinating Centre for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents. The Centre is not responsible for the use made of the information contained in this newsletter. Material from this publication may be reproduced with due acknowledgment.

CONTACTS:
Regional Coordinating Centre for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents
Andrássy út 23.
H-1061 Budapest,
HUNGARY
tel/fax: (361) 342 69 77 or 352 17 68
e-mail: budcentre@ella.hu



Before the 5th issue


This Newsletter intends to give a short account of the activities of Signatories Countries of the Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents during the second half of 1999 focusing on the transposition of international legal regulations into national law.

It is our hope that the consecutive issues of this Newsletter will provide a platform for information exchange to enhance co-operation among Signatories Countries, furthermore, support the speeding up of the ratification and implementation of the Convention, and we invite others to join our efforts.

We encourage readers to alert the Centre of any activities or publications that would be of interest to others in the region.

 
Reports

Austria – Hungary – Slovakia

The Command-Post Exercise (5-7 October 1999) and the Field Exercise (5-7 November 1999) held within the framework of the Comprotex’99 Exercise

Summary
According to its Work programme for 1999 the UN/ECE Regional Co-ordinating Centre for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents, joining the Hungarian National Staff, participated in the Exercise, in which 10 other countries (Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden and Switzerland) and 2 international organisations (UN OCHA and NATO EADRCC) were also involved.
The summary of the course and the series of events and the experiences gained can be find in: ComproComm.zip (69 kB) and ComproField.zip (300 kB)

 
Czech Republic

Workshop entitled “Major Accident Prevention and Preparedness in NATO and Partner Countries” held on 1-3 December 1999 (Rožnov pod Radhoštěm, Czech Republic)

Summary
The Workshop entitled “Major Accident Prevention and Preparedness in NATO and Partner Countries” (1-3 December 1999, Roznov pod Radhostem, Czech Republic) were organised by the Regional Environmental Impact Assessment Centre Ltd. in co-operation with the U.S. Department of Defence Deputy Under Secretary of Defence for Environmental Security and the Czech Republic Department of Environmental Risks in the Ministry of Environment.

The main purpose of the workshop was to explore current and future capacities in being able to prevent or respond to a major accident at industrial and military-industrial facilities. Occupational safety, risk assessment, and risk management were important themes in the event. Participants also examined the differences between EU requirements and developments in the NATO and Partnership for Peace countries on these matters.

One of the main benefits was to exchange experience and information between NATO countries and the Partner countries in this scientific area. The Workshop intended to support and promote close working relationship between scientists from different countries. Special attention were paid to comparison of current condition of workshop subject in a new member countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. As workshop result recommendations of next steps for individual countries will be prepared.

Some presentations delivered at the Workshop:
    Komar, F. Bozek and J. Dvorak: Current conditions in military safety in the Czech Republic
    Karen Schneider: Experience and current conditions of integrating risk management in the USA
    James C. Belke: Recurring causes of recent chemical accidents
    Imre Damjanovich: Current conditions in implementation of Seveso directives in Hungary
    Milczarek: Current conditions in implementation of Seveso directives in Poland
    Hanna Hörnström: Occupational and safety aspect of military weapons systems throughout their life cycle
    Maxwell Alston: Changing structures for civil-military emergency planning
    F. Habinec, A. Bernatík: Regional safety, city safety: risk assessment methodology
    Craig Schilder: Accident investigation and analysis
    J. Calzia: The European Process Safety Centre
    F. Bozek: Crisis Management of the Faculty of State Defence Economy
    A. Dutrieux, G. Van Malder: The “Seveso” Expert System “SEVEX”: An integrated approach for off-site effects analysis & effective emergency planning

The complete list of papers and the presentations will be made available on the web in the first quarter of 2000.

 
Hungary

Fourth Hungarian Conference on Technical Safety held on 19-20 October 1999 (Budapest, Hungary)

Summary
The 2-day conference on the “Safety criteria and requirements in terms of the EU accession” was organised by the Hungarian Technical Safety Inspectorate, the Dunagáz Co. and the UN/ECE Regional Co-ordinating Centre for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents in co-operation with various ministries and inspectorates.

Conference objectives were to provide information of and serve as a platform for a discussion on the technical safety aspects in Hungary, the tasks of the auditing, certification and supervision organisations and the authorities, the education and training, furthermore the suitability criteria for the staff, with a view to the accession to the EU and with the involvement of Hungarian and foreign experts.

At the Conference the following presentations were delivered:
Plenary Session
    Michael Völzow: CEOC and its role as a confederation of independent inspection bodies in the European harmonisation process
    Poul Holmegaard: Requirements for technical inspectorates by EU system law
    Endre Schuchtár: The Hungarian harmonisation of the European technical regulation and conformity evaluation procedure in the field of pressure equipment
    Dezső Olajos: The adaptation strategy of the Technical Safety Inspectorate with respect to challenges of the future
    Viktor Malárics: The Mining Authority’s tasks in the connection with accession to the European Union
    Lajos Vöröss: The situation of the Hungarian nuclear safety authority in the light of international experience
    Éva Sörös: The current question of the safety engineering with the special respect to periodical inspections
    Gábor Huszay: The change of the regulation system of consumer protection and market surveillance

I Hazardous equipments and establishments
Section A: Pressure equipment
    Bruno Wischin: Experience of the performance of task coming from the European Legal harmonisation in Austria
    Beat Schüpbach: Bringing up-to-date the periodical inspection and its legal regulation
    Peter Tscheliesing: The NDT and its European standardisation in the field of pressure equipment
    Miklós Ortutay: The hazard analysis of pressure equipment and systems
    András Tóth: Official supervision of the pressure equipment and piping at the Paks Nuclear Power Plant
    Péter Fölkl: Repair and duration of the deep-frozen liquid air gas tanks
    György Váró: The practical aspects of hazard analysis from the point of view of dangerous equipment operators
    Krisztina Dénesné Wiegand: Quality assurance systems in the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED) according to Appendix III

Section B: Gas supply and gas distribution
    Gerald Linke: Safety concepts for gas supplies in the European Union: Status quo and outlook
    Béla Szerényi: Operational reliability and the safety supply in our gas transportation system
    László Viktor: The energetic and safety engineering strategy of MOL in the field of gas supply
    Róbert Hunka: Issues related to safety zone
    György Balogh: Experiences in the field of gas industry planning at OLAJTERV
    János Dénes: Legislation in the field of propane-butane (PB) gas supply
    Péter Esztó: The situation related to technical safety regulation of gas supply
    Bánhidi, Zs. Bedő: Reliability tests confirming the quality of filled bottles
    László Blazsovszky: The consequences of Disregarding Technical Safety
    Zoltán Falvy: Fire safety equipment installed in gas pipelines

Section C: Storage and transportation of hazardous material
    Hans Joachim Busch: Action taken by the EU to improve safety with respect to ADR
    Lajos Bujdosó: ADR rule amendments planned
    György Sárosi: Safety issues on IBSs and tank containers used for hazardous materials
    Tamásné Biacs: Handling, storage and transportation of hazardous materials
    József Sáfár: Problems of illegal circulation of radioactive materials
    Béla Sebestyén: CH emission check of floating cover tanks in Europe and at MOL
    István Visontay: EU standardisation correlating with gas bottles
    Gábor Renglovics: Execution of safety regulation relating to gas bottles
    Kornél Lehoffer: Leak monitoring of storage tanks by environment-friend method

II Horizontal topics
Section A: Prevention of industrial accidents and catastrophes
    Kristóf Kozák: Seveso II Directive in the Environmental Legal Practice System of the EU
    István Daróczy: Prevention of industrial accidents and catastrophes
    Béla Szakál: Scheduling of introduction of Seveso II Directive in function of results of the EU negotiations
    Hans-Jürgen Pettelkau: The EU’s requirements far prevention of industrial accidents, catastrophes etc. and the experiences in the application of the regulations in similar developed countries
    Antal Halmy: The importance and scope of Seveso II Directive in Germany
    Dr. Iván Lux: The role and tasks of the National Office for Nuclear Energy in the prevention of nuclear accidents
    Gyula Pogány: Fire protection of storage tanks at MOL Co. in mirror of the project of the international oil industry
    Dr. Timo Kretzschmar: Seveso II Directive and its application in Austria as seen by a technical service supplier
    László Vigh: Risk analysis and accident prevention at the TVK Co.
    Ferenc Kápolna: Safety activities of pharmaceutical companies
    Vimal Patel: The implementation and impact of the Seveso II (COMAH) directive on industry: The United Kingdom story

Section B: Technical and safety supervision for the manufacturing and assembly of hazardous equipment – Standardisation
    József Haba: Adaptation of the EU standards in Hungary
    Aba Kádár: The current issues in electric safety engineering
    Vilmos Gombás: Oil industrially development nowadays, and the reciprocal effect between it and its connecting fabricate and installation background
    F.J. Steinborn: Requirements of the welding operations of pressure equipment on the basic of the European Directives
    Wolfgang Müller: The quality assurance system and product requirement specifications for steam and hot water boilers at the Viessmann Group, Germany
    József Bogár: The quality control system of DKG-EAST Co.
    József Tóth: Typical defects of oil refinery pressure tanks; their repair and prevention
    Péter Babics: New ways for the safety assessment of nuclear power plant reactor tanks
    Pál Hatos: Regulation gaps at the application of the MSZ EN 60079 standard

Section C: Training, education and personnel requirements for technical suitability
    Géza Gremsperger: Training on quality management out of the regular higher education and preparing to be member in EU
    Jolán Nagyné Maros: Training and qualification requirements with the respect to public administration and competitive sphere specialists as EU accession in approaching, at the threshold of the year 2000
    György Lukucza: Training and education in the quality assurance system of the gas supply business
    Celesztin Meszléry: Building engineering in higher education
    Béla Lőrinc: Education of safety technologies in the Institute of Mechanics “Kossuth Lajos” University of Sciences
    Zoltán Varga: The connection between university education, further training and technical safety engineering
    György Szabó: Some question about the develop of the human resources and the joining to EU

The papers will be made available on the web in the first quarter of 2000.

 
Upcoming events

International Conference on Industrial and Environmental Safety entitled “Peace and Safety”

The international conference on industrial and environmental safety entitled “Peace and Safety” (11-13 October 2000, Yaremtse, Region Ivanovo-Frankovsk, Ukraine) will be organized by the UN/ECE Regional Co-ordinating Centre for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents in co-operation with scientific bodies and public institutions of the Region Ivanovo-Frankovsk of Ukraine.

The objective of the Conference is to provide an overview of:
- the effective methods for the protection of health of human beings and for nature conservation in practice, and to introduce the tasks set up in the provisions of recent legislation;
- the identification and prevention of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, and reduction of the harmful effects of potential accidents;
- the appropriate means for technology transfer.

Furthermore the Conference will provide a platform to discuss in the presence of international experts the national legislation that is under preparation.
The Conference would be of interest not only to managers responsible for labour safety at companies where hazardous substances are present or potentially dangerous technology is used, but also to the personnel of regional, local and municipal authorities responsible for developing legislation related to industrial accidents, emergency or land-use planning, as well as to experts of government bodies, enforcement staff and the personnel rescue services.

The provisional agenda of the Conference is as follows:

Day 1
Registration of participants
Welcome and introduction
1. Provisions and state of implementation of the Directive 96/82/EC on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances (Seveso II Directive) and the UN/ECE Convention on the Transboundary Effects of Industrial Accidents (UN/ECE Convention)
Experiences of the EU member states in the transposition of the UN/ECE Convention and the Seveso II Directive into national law
Experiences of the countries in transition in the transposition of the UN/ECE Convention and the Seveso II Directive into national law
Discussion
Coffee break
2. The Major-accident Prevention Policy and the Safety Management System
Experiences in developing major-accident prevention policies
The role and importance of the safety report
Discussion
Lunch
3. Major hazards in the industrial establishments
Methods for hazard analysis and risk assessment
Discussion
4. Conclusions
“Get-Together Party”

Day 2
1. Implementation and enforcement of the related international regulations
Impact assessment in the transboundary context; land-use planning
Discussion
2. Information to the public in the chemical industrial areas
Public awareness and information in the context of major accidents involving dangerous substances
Discussion
Coffee break
3. Emergency planning
Defence systems (Responsibility of authorities, local governments, civil defence and fire rescue services)
Discussion
Lunch
4. Field trip to a chemical plant; introduction of the plant safety systems
Dinner
Meeting the local public organisations; Commemoration of the Chernobyl Catastrophe

Day 3
1. Co-operation between the defence organisations
Building up co-operation between defence organisations – Experiences gained during the preparation of the Comprotex’99 Exercise
Discussion
Coffee break
2. Examination of equipments of protection and monitoring systems (presentations of the sponsors and the exhibitors)
3. Final discussions
Lunch