Rotterdam Convention

Rotterdam Convention (2004) Rotterdam convention. Available from http //www.pic.int... 

For example, under the Stockholm Convention, only four Asian country parties have prepared national implementation plans, so far. With respect to the Rotterdam Convention, only seventeen countries have notified the import responses under the prior informed consent schemes of the Rotterdam Convention. Likewise, just twenty-one countries reported on the trade of hazardous wastes under the Basel Convention as of 2006. Indeed, Asian countries need to take actions necessary to implement relevant chemical related conventions at the national level. 

IFCS in 2000 also recognised the role of information exchange in relation to toxic chemicals in the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. It encouraged its implementation. The Convention went into force in 2004. It requires information prior to export of some 30 chemicals that are listed, most of these with very little circulation. Additions of live chemicals have been very controversial. At the Conference of the Parties in 2008, agreement was reached to add tributyl tin compounds but not concerning chrysotile asbestos and endosulfane. The IFCS in 2000 also recognised the importance of providing all relevant parties with safety information consistent with the safety data sheets. 

With the obvious effects being regulated and assessments and approaches harmonised, it is natural that attention be turned even further to ubiquitous environmental contamination with chemicals. The most obvious substances with persistent, toxic and bioaccumulating properties have been addressed in the Stockholm Convention, and there is a working process to review additional substances for possible inclusion. Such additions may not come easily, as shown by the example from the Rotterdam Convention with contention around inclusion of additional live chemicals, such as... 

UN (1998) Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, Rev. 2005. http //www.pic.int... 

The inclusion of so many cotton pesticides under the Rotterdam Convention underlines the danger these chemicals pose to the world population. However, whilst the treaty aims to facilitate information exchange regarding the release of hazardous chemicals to provide each party with a decision-making process on their import and export and to ensure that chemicals are correctly labeled with information relating to potential health and environmental impacts the treaty does not exist to promote an end to the sale and use of those chemicals it considers dangerous. ... 

Cotton pesticides considered under the Rotterdam Convention... 

Endosulfan is to be considered for inclusion under the Rotterdam Convention, but is not currently subject to its protocols... 

Sign and ratify The. Rotterdam Convention on the. Prior Informed Consent (PIC), and ILO Convention 184 regarding Safety and I lealth in Agriculture ... 

Current restrictions List II for inclusion in the EU Dangerous Substances Directive To be considered for inclusion under the UNEP Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent Chemical (PIC) Banned in five countries Use restricted in four . ... 

Rotterdam Convention, UNEP/ FAO http //wrwrw.pic.int/en/Table5.htm... 

In addition, in the field of the sound management of chemicals, two very recent treaties - the Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure, which entered into force on 24 February 2004, and the Stockholm POPs Convention, which entered into force on 17 May 2004 - have attracted the interest of large numbers of States not Party to... 

Rotterdam Convention This improves the exchange of information and the observance of inport decisions in international trade with certain hazardous chemicals. The convention is internationally known as Prior Informed Consent (PIC). 

Describe any other regulatory information on the substance or mixture that is not provided elsewhere in the SDS (e.g. whether the substance or mixture is subject to the Montreal Protocol, the Stockholm Convention or the Rotterdam Convention ). 

Rotterdam Convention means the Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade. 

The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade was adopted on 10 September 1998. The Convention was ratified by 50 countries (Parties) and entered into force (e.i.f.) on February 24, 2004. Presently, it provides a legal basis for the implementing of the existing PIC procedure that was operated on voluntary basis since 1989. UNEP and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) jointly serve as the secretariat for the Convention. 

In 1996, the International Forum on Chemical Safety concluded that evidence was sufficient to call for international action to ban the use of 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs). On the basis of this recommendation, UNEP convened a drafting committee in 1997 and, three years later, a final agreement was signed in Stockholm. This Stockholm Convention requires action plans and schedules for the elimination of the production and use of nine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyls, the severe restriction of the use of DDT, and best control measures for reducing the generation of dioxin and hexaclorobenzene as inadvertent contaminants of certain production and disposal processes. As with the Rotterdam Convention this agreement... 

The chemical industry spans many countries of the world and chemicals are used worldwide. Despite the plethora of regulations on chemicals, many countries do not have adequate legislation or the necessary infrastructure to ensure their safe use. To help overcome this situation there is an international initiative for wide sharing of information and to provide support through training programmes and technical expertise. The Rotterdam Convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade, adopted in 1998, is an example. Other international agreements worthy of mention... 

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