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Curtain
Raiser:
The eighth session
of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International
Legally Binding Instrument for the Application of the Prior Informed
Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in
International Trade (INC-8) opens today at the Food and Agriculture
Organization in Rome, Italy, and will meet until 12 October 2001. The
Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for
Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade was
adopted at a Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, on 10 September 1998. To date, the Convention has been signed
by 72 States and the European Commission, and ratified by 16 States. It
will enter into force once 50 instruments of ratification are deposited.
Until the Convention’s first Conference of the Parties (COP), the INC
will continue to provide guidance regarding the implementation of the PIC
procedure during the interim period. The PIC procedure aims to promote
shared responsibility between exporting and importing countries in
protecting human health and the environment from the harmful effects of
certain hazardous chemicals being traded internationally. Delegates to
INC-8 will consider, inter alia: activities of the Secretariat; the work
of the Interim Chemical Review Committee (ICRC); implementation of the
interim PIC procedure; preparation for the COP; and issues arising out of
the Conference of Plenipotentiaries.
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