Purchase requires either evidence of commercial status or signature and government-issued identification, with a quantity restriction on registry purchases and the right to refuse sales. |
- Outreach
- Training of retailers to request signature and ID at point of sale and identify suspicious behavior
- Reporting of suspicious behavior, fraud, theft, or loss
- Other documentation (e.g., electronic record keeping for transactions and/or data analytics)
- Audits and inspections, including mystery shopping
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- Capability to deter and reduce illegitimate noncommercial acquisitions through legitimate channels (+)
- Awareness of chemicals, concerns, and implementation mechanisms and requirements (++)b
- Capability to track and correlate suspicious activity, etc., ex ante; investigate incidents, ex post (++)
- Capability to provide feedback on implementation (++)
- Better visibility of retail transactions for improvements in policy (++)
- Non-economic social benefits (+)
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- Public-sector expenditures on administration, outreach, training, data intake and analysis, and audits and inspections (++)
- Public-sector expenditures on law enforcement (+++)c
- Private-sector expenditures on administration, outreach, training, reporting, documentation, and audits and inspections, implementation (++)
- Forgone sales, use, and associated surplus (+)d
- Additional transaction time (+++)
- Non-economic social costs (+)
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- Non-compliance, inadvertent or intentional
- Institutional amnesia and/or employee turnovere
- Outright circumvention, e.g., via diversion or document falsification
- Unintentional knowledge transfer
- Displacement
- Over implementation
- Commercial disruption
- Discriminatory profiling, potentially offset by training and auditing
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- EU/UK regulations
- Canadian regulations
- Some United States regulations on pesticides
- Existing state regulations in the United States
- Existing domestic outreach programs that address training and reporting
- Existing trade group programs that address training and reporting
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