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International Regulatory Cooperation for Herbal Medicines (IRCH) was established in 2006, and became an official agency of WHO in 2017. The development history after IRCH founded, organization framework, term of reference, workflow and requirements for joining IRCH, and current priorities of IRCH were systematically introduced. At the same time, combining to the work priorities of IRCH, China should actively participate in the relevant works of IRCH from the following aspects, such as the establishment of international herbal medicine standards, compilation of WHO herbal pharmacopoeia, evidence-based research on herbal medicine, and data information collection of herbal drugs. The participation on IRCH work could contribute to the development of traditional Chinese medicine in the global market.
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RESUMO A avaliação de impactos ambientais, introduzida por meio da Política Nacional de Meio Ambiente (PNMA), ganhou espaço primordialmente dentro do licenciamento ambiental, cujo modelo atual é questionado pela sua ineficácia em compensar ao ambiente a perda dos recursos naturais. Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar de forma técnica e legal o licenciamento ambiental minerário na Região do Alto São Francisco, Minas Gerais, por intermédio do histórico e fluxo atual dos processos, do levantamento de dados dos de Estudos de Impacto Ambiental, do cumprimento dos Termos de Referência e da legislação ambiental, analisando estes dados pelo método Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). Os resultados demonstraram que o licenciamento ambiental não cumpre a função de compensar os impactos socioambientais causados pela atividade nem os requisitos legais obrigatórios ao processo.
ABSTRACT The assessment of environmental impacts, introduced by the National Environmental Policy, has earned a place within the environmental licensing process, which is currently questioned due to its ineffectiveness to compensate nature for resources' loss. This study aimed at technically and legally assessing the mineral environmental licensing process in the Region of Alto São Francisco, Minas Gerais, through history and current flow of processes, as well as by surveying data from Studies on Environmental Impact, and compliance with the Terms of Reference and applicable environmental law, using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). The results showed that the environmental licensing process does not meet the needs for compensating the socioenvironmental impacts caused by activity and does not comply with the legal requirements that are mandatory in the process.
