Rotterdam Convention definition
Examples of Rotterdam Convention in a sentence
No ingredient in the formulated product is included on Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention (PIC list) or listed in the Stockholm Convention.
One particularly important rule for subsidiary bodies is whether meetings are to be held in public or in private (e.g. the rules of procedure for the Rotterdam Convention provide that meetings of standing subsidiary bodies are public and those of ad hoc subsidiary bodies are private).
The case-study of the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent, despite being a case of shared competences, was negotiated exclusively by the Commission.
On a more global level, the EU is committed to proper chemicals management through its participation in the Rotterdam Convention, within which a capacity building programme is under development, and in the International Plant Protection Convention, which aims at preventing the spread and introduction of pests and to promote appropriate measures for their control.
Identify chemicals being used in each country and encourage a sub-regional study on toxicity of these chemicals and particularly their impacts on bird populations, which will feed into and/or lead to proposed recommendations for chemical/pesticide bans/restrictions at both national and international level (i.e. feeding into national legislation and eventually recommendations for the Rotterdam Convention).
The current membership includes pesticide regulators and/or Designated National Authorities (DNA) of the Rotterdam Convention and pesticide risk managers with diverse backgrounds and disciplines from all the 15 SADC countries.
Regarding paraquat, the severely hazardous pesticide formulation paraquat dichloride (20%) has been proposed for listing to the Rotterdam Convention.
The Parties also undertake, to the extent they have not yet done so, to ratify and effectively implement, at the latest by the date of entry into force of this Agreement, 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 Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade was signed in 1998 and became globally legally binding in 2004.
First the NDP, and then the Liberals, shifted their positions to, at least, favour listing asbestos as ‘hazardous’ under the Rotterdam Convention.