Roadmap to cease the use of chrysotile – Many unresolved issues

Hanoi (VNA) - Whether to stop or allow the use of chrysotile has once again become a hot topic with many debates among Government agencies and experts in the hearing session held by the National Assembly Committee on Science, Technology and Environment on 03 November 2018. The decades-long controversy as well as the proposal to develop a roadmap to cease the use of chrysotile in the production of asbestos cement (AC) roofing by 2023 proposed by the Ministry of Construction have caused many difficulties to the manufacturers of this affordable roofing; some producers have had to shut down their businesses. 

In the hearing, many issues were not resolved and many questions from the Deputies of the National Assembly did not received satisfactory answers.

What is legal basis to develop the Roadmap to cease the use of chrysotile by 2023?

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