THERE is an urgent need to modify and improve the Philippines' 21-year-old policy regulation on the manufacture and use of asbestos and asbestos containing materials in the country, said a confederation of labor unions and a coalition of environmental organizations.

In a statement on Thursday, the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) and the Ecowaste Coalition said that the moribund Chemical Control Order (CCO) for Asbestos, issued by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) on Jan. 6, 2000, needs serious improvement in its mandate to protect the public in the light of its passive enforcement, growing noncompliance to the regulation and the unfettered importation into the country of raw asbestos and materials and products containing asbestos.

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