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Further improvements needed to manage major flood risk in Paris and Seine basin

Action to prevent the risk of major flooding in Paris and the Ile de France region has improved in recent years – particularly after the Seine burst its banks in May and June 2016 – but urban and territorial planning needs to be better adapted, governance strengthened and long-term funding clarified, according to the OECD.




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ITALY: Developing local development strategies for remote, peripheral areas - Trentino

The OECD LEED Trento Centre is working with Italy and the Autonomous Province of Trento to strengthen capacities to develop and implement integrated strategies targeted at improving the quality of life and well-being of people and reversing demographic trends in ‘inner areas’ (sparsely populated areas and stranded communities isolated from large and medium-sized urban centres).




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Improving the impact of territorial wide area co-operation in the Adriatic-Ionian region

The OECD Trento Centre is undertaking a review (2017/2018) to identify the needs and priorities for policy improvement and to foster the exchange of experiences, the capitalisation of acquired know-how and the generation of new and fresh thinking in the Adriatic-Ionian macro-region.




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OECD ministers agree new approach to ensure global events benefit local communities

In advance of the 2024 Paris Olympics, OECD ministers have agreed the first international framework to help design and manage major events in order to maximise their potential to create jobs, boost local development and generate long-term benefits for citizens and the environment.




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OECD sessions on Local Development and Spatial Productivity at the 13th Trento Festival of Economics on Technology and Jobs

The OECD Trento Centre organised five sessions within the 2018 Festival of Economics on Technology and Jobs on 1-3 June 2018. OECD and intenational experts along with high level government representatives discussed the impact of new technologies on jobs and its effect on local economies and policies and what regions and regional policy can do to narrow economic gaps and promote productivity catching-up.




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Summer Academy on Cultural and Creative Industries and Local Development

The Summer Academy, a three-year project 2018-2020, provides training for policy makers and representatives of cultural and creative industries (CCIs). The first edition will take place 11-15 June 2018 in Trento and Bolzano, Italy. The final conference on Friday 15 June is open to local as well as to national and international stakeholders interested in the event themes, upon registration.




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Internship at the OECD Trento Centre and Venice Office

The OECD Trento Centre and the Venice office are pleased to announce a call for internship applications. Deadline for applications: Sunday, 19th August 2018 at 23.59 (Italian time).




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9th International Summer School for community and local development in Latin America and the Caribbean

The School is organising specialised courses on socio-economic development and creating an international platform to exchange experiences and knowledge between public officers and practitioners from OECD member and non member countries that deals with cooperation and local development issues.




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Executive - Settlements

Company: Golden Opportunities Private Limited
Experience: 1 to 4
location: Bengaluru / Bangalore
Ref: 24828564
Summary: Description Analyst Settlements Job Description: The incumbent of this role should have In-depth knowledge of the Equity Settlements and various market rules Candidate will be responsible for managing the....




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Sr. Executive - Settlements

Company: Golden Opportunities Private Limited
Experience: 3 to 6
location: Bengaluru / Bangalore
Ref: 24828560
Summary: Description Sr. Analyst Settlements Job Description: The incumbent of this role should have In-depth knowledge of the Equity Settlements and various market rules. Candidate will be responsible for managing the....




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mis execuitive

Company: SAW IT Services Private Limited
Qualification: Bachelor Of Computer Application (B.C.A), Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com)
Experience: 1 to 2
location: Mumbai, Mumbai City
Ref: 24824650
Summary: Collating/Extracting data and doing necessary transformation using excel or custom tools provided and....




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Associate - Non Voice,

Company: 2COMS Consulting Private Limited
Qualification: Bachelor in Hotel Management (B.H.M), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc)
Experience: 0 to 1
Salary: 0.00 to 1.80
location: Chittoor
Ref: 24824626
Summary: Golden Opportunity For Fresher To Start Your Career In Big Mnc as a Backed Executive in Chennai....




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Operations and Support Engineer – Level 2

Company: Andnr Soft Solutions Private Limited
Experience: 3 to 6
location: Saudi Arabia
Ref: 24822696
Summary: As an Operations and Support Engineer – Level 2 , you will be involved in tier II technical support for incidents, problems and change management of hosted and managed solutions.




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Production Supervisor, Production Manager, Production Executive

Company: Confidential
Qualification: Aviation, Bachelor of Arts (B.A), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A), Bachelor Of Computer Application (B.C.A), Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech/B.E), Bachelors of Law (B.L/L.L.B), Bachelor Of Pharmacy....




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Production Supervisor, Production Manager, Production Executive

Company: Confidential
Qualification: Aviation, Bachelor of Arts (B.A), Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch), Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A), Bachelor Of Computer Application (B.C.A), Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com), Bachelor Of Technology (B.Tech/B.E), Bachelors of Law (B.L/L.L.B), Bachelor Of Pharmacy....




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Accounts & Finance Executive, Accounts & Finance Manager

Company: Confidential
Qualification: Other
Experience: 0 to 5
Salary: 3.50 to 6.50
location: Mumbai, Pune
Ref: 24140258
Summary: Accounts & Finance Executive, Accounts & Finance Manager




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Urgent Opening for House keeping ,Electrician,Technician,MST,Lift operator @ over all chennai

Company: Trident Wings Corporate Services Private Limited
Qualification: Other
Experience: 0 to 5
location: Chennai
Ref: 23828749
Summary: • site operation Technical and Housekeeping. • Technical and General maintenance of the Sites wherever assigned.




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Test Guidelines that have been deleted or replaced by updated versions

In 2012, the Joint Meeting agreed on the status of deleted and former versions of Test Guidelines with regards to the Mutual Acceptance of Data (MAD). An 18-month transitional period between the Council Decision and the effective date of deletion was agreed, after which no new test using the deleted or the former version of a Test Guideline can be initiated.




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OECD Conference on the Environmental Uses of Micro-organisms, 26-27 March 2012, Paris, France

The conference will cover developments and the state-of-the art of environmental microbiology, as it is applied for biotechnological purposes, and the role of genetic engineering of micro-organisms intended for use in the environment, now and in the near future.




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Six Years of OECD Work on The Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials: Achievements and Future Opportunities

This communication outlines the achievements made so far by OECD in addressing the human health and environmental safety implications of manufactured nanomaterials




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Ten new, updated, or corrected Test Guidelines have been adopted by the OECD Council

The new Test Guidelines are: TG 457 and TG 460. The updated Test Guidelines are TG 109, TG 114, TG 229, TG 211, TG 305, TG 455, and TG 405. The corrected Test Guideline is TG 443




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OECD improves tool to predict the hazards of chemicals

Governments and the chemical industry spend millions of dollars every year testing the safety of chemicals that people use in their everyday lives. Computer modelling, through the OECD-designed QSAR Toolbox software, now replaces many of the tests traditionally done in the laboratory. This allows regulators and industry to save money and use fewer animals to predict the hazardous properties of chemicals.




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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Pesticide Programs’ Aquatic Life Benchmarks now available on eChemPortal

The aquatic life benchmarks (for freshwater species) are based on toxicity values reviewed by EPA and used in the Agency's most recent risk assessments developed as part of the decision-making process for pesticide registration. Each Aquatic Life Benchmark is based on the most sensitive, scientifically acceptable toxicity endpoint available for a given taxon of all scientifically acceptable toxicity data available to EPA.




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Launch of the new OECD Environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit

The OECD Environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit describes the work flow for environmental risk assessment and management of chemicals with links to available OECD material relevant for the different steps in risk assessment and management. This new version of the Toolkit is more interactive and has added functionalities. It will be populated with additional tools and case studies in the future.




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Descriptions of existing models and tools used for exposure assessment: Results of OECD Survey

This document includes a table which summarises descriptions of existing models and tools used for exposure assessment, as well as responses to a 2010 survey – conducted by the OECD Task Force on Exposure Assessment - upon which the table was based. The summary table and the responses are also available in the OECD Environmental Risk Assessment Toolkit (http://envriskassessmenttoolkit.oecd.org/).




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Revision 1 of the Resource Compendium of PRTR Release Estimation Techniques Part 1: Summary of Point Source Techniques

This document outlines basic background information on release estimation techniques (RETs) for point sources and provides resources on available RETs of different national/regional Pollutant Release and Transfer Register systems. It was originally published in 2002, and has been updated to reflect new and additional information.




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The first update to the third generation of the OECD QSAR Toolbox is now available

30/01/2013 –The first update to the third generation of the QSAR Toolbox (version 3.1) has now been released containing improved search functionalities, interface improvement, a new database for observed rat in vivo metabolism; updated auto oxidation and metabolism simulators; updated DNA binding profiler and additional ways of expressing mixtures composition.




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Consensus document on composition of new soybean varieties: food and feed nutrients, anti-nutrients, toxicants and allergens

This revised document supplies basic information (compositional considerations, key constituents), useful in risk/safety assessment of food and feed using new varieties of soybean (Glycine max.). This updated publication replaces the original issue of 2001.




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Current Developments/Activities on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials

This document provides information on current/planned activities related to the safety of manufactured nanomaterials in OECD member and non-member countries that attended at the 10th meeting of OECD’s Working Party on Manufactured Nanomaterials (Paris France, 27-29 June 2012).




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Guidance Document for Exposure Assessment Based on Environmental Monitoring

This document provides guidance for performing an exposure assessment based on environmental monitoring data.It covers topics such as environmental levels and distribution of contaminants, ways of using monitoring data in exposure assessments for differing purposes, the collection of data, quality of monitoring activities, as well as several examples of data compilation in member countries and their use in exposure assessment.




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Carbon Capture and Long-Term Storage: Analysis of 2010 Survey

This is an analysis of a 2010 survey regarding carbon capture and long-term storage (CCS). It provides information that helps understand the hazards of CO2 sequestration and the risks to human health and environmental safety. It also identifies accident scenarios, including those associated with CO2 capture and compression, storage prior to transport and injection for geological storage.




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Guidance Document On Developing And Assessing Adverse Outcome Pathways

This guidance document intends to provide an insight into which pieces of information that are necessary to identify and document an adverse outcome pathway (AOP) and how to present them. The AOP concept has been developed as a means of providing transparent mechanistic justification and weight-of-evidence to reduce uncertainty in the predictions for complex toxicological endpoints.




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The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) database of completed chemical reviews is now searchable in eChemPortal

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) database of completed chemical reviews including (in some cases) detailed risk assessment reports addressing human health and the environment. A review, initiated from new concerns, may lead to the reconsideration of the registration of agricultural and veterinary chemicals in the marketplace if potential risks to safety and performance have been identified.




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Low-level presence of transgenic plants in seed and grain commodities: Environmental risk/safety Assessment, and availability and use of information

This Biosafety document aims to serve as an aid to risk assessors and regulators; providing guidance on handling the aspects of an environmental safety assessment, accessing and using information in situations of low-level presence (LLP) of transgenic plants in seed and grain commodities.




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Emission scenario document for wood preservatives

The OECD has published a revision of the 2003 Emission Scenario Document on Wood Preservatives to take into account the experience gained in working with the 2003 ESD. The document has been totally restructured, emission scenarios have been updated and new, niche scenarios have been added. The document is an essential tool for Member countries working in the area of biocidal products assessment.




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Consensus document on compositional considerations for new varieties of oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus): Key food and feed nutrients, anti-nutrients and toxicants

This document supplies basic information useful in the risk and safety assessment of food and feed using new varieties of oyster mushroom: compositional considerations, key constituents (nutrients, anti-nutrients and toxicants). It is issued in the Novel Food and Feed Safety Series.




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Help us to help you. A new survey is on-line to collect eChemPortal user feedback

eChemPortal uses are encouraged to respond to the on-line survey. Your use of the portal, your expectations, information, substance search, property search, structure search, design and layout. Your answers will help us improve eChemPortal - the Global Portal to Information on Chemical Substances, worldwide source of information about chemicals from authorities and international organisations, to meet your needs.




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Ecotoxicology and Environmental Fate of Manufactured Nanomaterials: Test Guidelines

This document includes the conclusions and recommendations resulting from a workshop that addressed the ecotoxicology and environmental fate of manufactured nanomaterials, and in particular the applicability of existing OECD Test Guidelines (TG) related to these topics. A number of TG developments are underway at OECD as a follow-up to these recommendations.




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OECD/UNEP Webinar: Recent developments in alternatives to long chain per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs)

The webinar will specifically be looking at recent developments in alternatives to long chain PFCs. Per- and polyfluorinated chemicals (PFCs) have been in use since the 1950s as ingredients or intermediates of surfactants and surface protectors for assorted industrial and consumer applications.




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Removal/emission predictions of wastewater treatment for exposure assessment and Pollutant Release and Transfer Registers

This document compiles information on the current methodologies, tools and models and helps readers identify appropriate models/ and methodologies for estimating substance-specific removal/emissions from wastewater treatment systems. It could support efforts to improve these models and tools.




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Consensus document on the biology of cassava

This document is a tool for environmental safety assessment of novel varieties of Cassava derived from modern biotechnology. Cassava is a key staple crop in Africa, Asia and Latin America, this document will be useful to many readers interested in biosafety issues.




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Weight of evidence assessment for the skin sensitisation potential of 4-isopropylaniline

This OECD monograph demonstrates how a chemical hazard assessment that considers and ranks all available relevant information - a so-called weight of evidence approach - can be constructed to conclude on a particular hazard endpoint for a chemical, in this case, skin sensitisation for 4-isopropylaniline.




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New scoping document on in vitro and ex vivo assays for the identification of modulators of thyroid hormone signalling

This scoping document brings forward relevant in vitro and ex vivo thyroid assays to the attention of OECD member countries, and provide recommendations for their further development/use, and also, to identify aspects of the thyroid signalling pathway that are not covered and would require further attention




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Report of an OECD survey on the assessment of the risks from obsolete pesticides in OECD countries

OECD has published a report of a survey that provides information and recommendations on how to deal with stocks of “obsolete” pesticides in OECD member (and partner) countries. Such pesticides’ obsolescence can arise for a number of reasons including product deterioration, product de-registration, and product revision.




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Report of an OECD survey on risk management/mitigation approaches and options related to agricultural pesticide use near residential areas

This report of a survey collates member countries’ approaches to manage and mitigate the risk of pesticide use near residential areas.




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The joint Substance Data Pool of the German Federal Government and the German Federal States (GSBL) is the 30th database linked to eChemPortal

The Joint Substance Data Pool of the German Federal Government and Federal States (GSBL) is now linked to eChemPortal. Records contain information on physical and chemical properties, on ecotoxicological and toxicological parameters and on environmental fate. They provide descriptions of environmental hazards, health dangers, fire and other technical hazards and give information on relevant chemicals-related legislation.




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OECD launches its knowledge base on Adverse Outcome Pathways

The OECD is pleased to announce, together with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency and the European Commission Joint Research Centre, the Adverse Outcome Pathway Knowledge Base (AOP KB). This is a web-based platform which aims to bring together all the knowledge on how chemicals can induce adverse effects, therefore providing a focal point for AOP development and dissemination.




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OECD Guidance on the GLP Requirements for Peer Review of Histopathology

This advisory document provides guidance on how pathology peer reviews should be planned, conducted and reported within the context of OECD Good Laboratory Practice.




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OECD encourages the development of non-animal test methods for the detection of thyroid disrupters

The OECD Advisory Group on Endocrine Disrupters Testing and Assessment met on 16-17 October 2014 in Paris to discuss the development and update of Test Guidelines and related documents for endocrine disrupters testing and assessment.




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OECD work on pesticides and sustainable pest management: Vision for the future

A cooperative global approach to the regulation of agricultural pesticides and sustainable pest management. Pesticides are widely used in agriculture and have considerable benefits by contributing to a sustainable production of food and feed. If used improperly or in an inappropriate manner, they also can present unacceptable risks to human and animal health and to the environment.