Mission

To provide chemical safety in the Republic of Slovenia.
 
Our basic task is to provide acceptable risks to all population of the Republic of Slovenia concerning their health and the environment when it comes to production and use of chemicals. This effort has been fulfilled by integrating and coordinating relevant national authorities, professional institutions and the public to provide a balanced policy on chemical safety, by raising awareness at all levels through the public and educational system as well as through legitimate and professional work of highly qualified and motivated employees.

Vision
 
We seek to become a leading factor when it comes to ensuring all life in safe coexistence with chemicals in the Republic of Slovenia. In doing so, we want to be comparable with the best EU member states, as well as playing an important role in attaining higher chemical safety both in the region and globally.

Values

• Legitimacy, professionalism, impartiality, and openness and transparency of its performance. 
• Friendly attitude, reliability and responsibility to customers and employees.
• Order, interaction within and among relevant sectors as well as beyond its sectors.
• Efficiency, success and economy as a guiding thought of all NCB employees.
• Openness for cooperation in joint areas in the framework of the NCB. 

Quality Assurance Policy

NCB’s quality assurance policy is to provide continual improvement in all areas, a prerequisite for fulfilling its visions and mission while taking account of its values.

Organisation, resources, procedures and responsibilities for service performance is provided through quality assurance documents that are in line with relevant legislative requirements and meet customer expectations. Special attention is devoted to education and training of NCB employees to acquire necessary functional knowledge.

Our main focus is on customer and employee satisfaction, an aim that is pursued through a friendly attitude towards our customers and employees as well as towards our external colleagues. NCB’s approach is invariably based on reliability, responsibility, honesty when it comes to its work and meeting deadlines.

 
Tasks

The NCB is a body within the Ministry of Health, and was founded in August 1999 based on the Chemicals act.

The NCB performs its professional and administrative as well as inspection tasks according to the Chemicals Act, the Biocidal Products Act, the Act of Strategic Goods of Special Significance for Safety and Health, Illicit Drug Prevention Act as well as other act, international agreements and other rules adopted by the National assembly, the Government of the Republic of Slovenia or the minister responsible for health. What is more, the NCB also carried out professional and administrative tasks based on the Cosmetic Products Act.

 
 
The National Chemicals Bureau is responsible for performing tasks pertaining to:

• Trade in chemicals and biocidal products,
• Measures aimed at human health and environment protection against harmful effects of chemicals and biocidal products, participation in registration procedures of plant protection products, production, trade and use of substances that could be precursors for manufacturing illicit drugs with the aim of preventing their abuse and use for illicit purposes,
• obligations, bans and limitations pertaining to products of strategic significance for safety and health,
• requirements to be met by cosmetic products, 
• drafting and implementing of the National Programme for Safe Chemicals Management,
• cooperation with international organisations and participation in international projects cooperation with other competent authorities in Slovenia and abroad,
• conducting education in relation to chemical safety,
• monitoring of trade and use of chemicals, POPs, biocidal products and monitoring their degradation products and traces in the environment and living organisms,
• monitoring progress in science and technology when it comes to determining negative impacts and hazards for human health and environment related risk factors, 
• interministerial coordination and the Committee for Safe Chemicals Management,
• harmonisation with the Acquis,
• information support for chemicals,
• carrying out inspections,
• other tasks defined by rules.