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11th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee to the Rotterdam Convention
on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous
Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

26-28 October 2015 | Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, Rome, Italy


Highlights for Monday, 26 October 2015

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CRC Chair Jürgen Helbig, Germany, and Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention William Murray

CRC-11 The eleventh meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC) to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade opened Monday at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in Rome, Italy. Co-Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention, William Murray, FAO, discussed the decision on highly hazardous pesticides taken by the recently convened Fourth International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM4) and the FAO pesticide registration toolkit, underscoring that the CRC is an important process for knowledge sharing, and that its decisions serve the basis of the COP's decisions.

In the morning, the CRC adopted the agenda, and reviewed the outcomes of the Seventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (COP7) relevant to the work of the CRC. The Committee then initiated consideration of the decision guidance documents (DGDs) on SCCPs and tributyltin compounds for industrial use.

In the afternoon participants heard a report of the Bureau on the preliminary review of notifications of final regulatory action and the proposal for a severely hazardous pesticide formulation (SPHF), and reviewed notifications of final regulatory action on atrazine and carbofuran.

Contact groups were established on atrazine and carbofuran.

IISD Reporting Services, has provided daily web updates from the 11th Meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-11), which was held from 26 to 28 October 2015. A summary and analysis report of CRC-11 is available in HTML and PDF. Available in ENB Mobile at: http://enb.iisd.mobi/chemical-poprc11-crc11/


CRC member Sarah Maillefer, Switzerland, presents
the report of the task group on carbofuran.

CRC member Anja Bartels, Germany, presents the
draft decision guidance document for tributyltin.


CRC member Leonarda Christina van Leeuwen, the Netherlands, presents the report of the task group on atrazine.

CRC member Elsa Ferreras de Sánchez, Dominican Republic


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