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PIC Chemicals - brochure

An introduction to the chemicals listed in the Rotterdam Convention that are subject to the international legally-binding prior informed consent (PIC) procedure

Year of publication 2010

Pages 54

Author Plant Production and Protection Division

Product type Document

Category Brochure

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This booklet provides basic information on the chemicals listed in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. The Rotterdam Convention is a global treaty that provides an early warning to countries on a broad range of hazardous chemicals that have been banned or severely restricted in other countries to protect human health or the environment. The Convention can be used to preven t unwanted international trade in certain of these chemicals. There are over 130 Parties to the Convention. The Conference of the Parties meets every two years to oversee the implementation of the Convention. The Chemical Review Committee, a subsidiary body of the Conference of the Parties, consists of government-designated experts in chemicals management. The Committee reviews chemicals against criteria described in the Convention and makes recommendations to the Conference of the Parties on the addition of new PIC chemicals to Annex III of the Convention. The Conference of the Parties takes the final decision. Information pertaining to recommendations and decisions related to the review and addition of chemicals to the Convention may be found in meeting reports of the Chemical Review Committee and the Conference of the Parties, which are published online (http://www.pic.int). The inclusion of trade names for individual PIC chemicals, in this booklet, is pr imarily intended to facilitate the identification of chemicals. It is not intended to imply approval of any particular product or company. As it is not possible to include all trade names currently in use, only a number of commonly used and published trade names have been included.

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