Cabinet Regulation No. 301 of 2011 on Environmental Pollution from Production of Asbestos and Asbestos-based Products and Management of Asbestos Waste

The Regulation prescribes the procedures for prevention and reduction of environmental pollution resulting from the production of asbestos and asbestos-based products and procedures for the management of asbestos waste. The Regulation applies to persons carrying out activities with asbestos (fibrous hydro-silicate material in pure form) or material containing asbestos fibres - crocidolite (blue asbestos), actinolite, anthophyillite, chrysotile (white asbestos), amosite (brown asbestos), tremolite, and also raw asbestos (a product resulting from the primary crushing of asbestos ore). Finally, the Regulation adopts as its annex methods of sampling and analysis of asbestos emission into water and methods of sampling and analysis of emission into the air.