Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed

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 on Prior Informed Consent, UNEP/ FAO http / /wwwpic.int/en/Table5.htm... 

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. 

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... 

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

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 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. 

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... 

The Joint UNEP/FAO Interim Secretariat for the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade publishes PIC circulars every six months, containing notifications received from national authorities on the final regulatory action to ban or severely restrict a chemical. The current ninth issue of the List contains data taken from PIC circulars issued between December 2001 and June 2003. It includes information on nine new products, together with updated and/or new information on 47 existing products. In view of the small number of new products, no commercial information on trade/brand names was included in the ninth issue. 

The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade. The convention was adopted in 1998. The convention enables for monitoring and control the international trade in very dangerous substances. According to the convention export of a chemical can be realized only with the prior informed consent of the importing country. The convention includes a list of 22 pesticides including aldrin, dieldrin, DDT, chlordane, heptachlore, HCB, and 5 industrial chemicals. 

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. 

Based on the Rotterdam Convention of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), known as Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Hade , known as the PIC Convention , the EC Regulation 304/2003/EC [4-19] concerning the Export and Import of Dangerous Chemicals was adopted. 

National environmental laws often reflect two global treaties, the Rotterdam Convention and the Stockholm Convention. Brief summaries follow. The Rotterdam Convention establishes a prior informed consent (PIC) procedure for importing shipments of chemicals listed in Annex 111 of the convention and provides for information exchange between participating countries. Adopted in September 1998, it entered into force February 2004 [1]. The 2001 Stockholm Convention requires parties to the treaty to take measures to eliminate or reduce the release of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) into the environment [2]. As described in this chapter, regulations on persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic substances address POPs. Industry value in 1970 dollars adjusted for inflation using the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics inflation calculator at http //www.bls.gov/data/inflation calcula-tor.htm, equivalent to 1.01 trillion in 2010. 

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