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An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

… to a country for the first time must notify the Party of import in advance and provide certain information relating to the LMO. The Party of import then has an opportunity to examine this information and may decide to accept or reject the import, or attach conditions to it, based on a risk …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Major Components of the Cartagena Protocol - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… international organizations. http://www.informea.org/terms/import/ … the Protocol. The AIA procedure applies prior to the first import of an LMO destined for intentional introduction into the environment of the Party of import. According to these rules, the Party of export or the …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Biological Diversity

Overview of the Rotterdam Convention

… Countries lacking adequate infrastructure to monitor the import and use of these chemicals are particularly … chemicals and to take informed decisions on their future import. Seeing the need for mandatory controls, offi cials … providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and disseminating these decisions to …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Main Provisions of the Rotterdam Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… contents 1. The Prior Informed Consent procedure Stage 1: Import Responses Stage 2: Follow up on importing and … The PIC procedure only applies to the export and import of chemicals listed in Annex III. The Convention stipulates 2 key stages; (1) Import Responses and; (2) follow up Parties’ …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Publication - An Explanatory Guide to the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing

… functions. For example, it should be decided whether the import of all genetic resources is subject to monitoring by a …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Biological Diversity

Protecting human health and the environment: A guide to the Rotterdam Convention on hazardous chemicals and pesticides

… – generally referred to as a State party – decides not to import a particular chemical or pesticide covered by the PIC … duct to that country. If a country decides to limit the import of a chemical to certain uses, exporting countries … whose use should be carefully weighed and whose import needs to be agreed. (See the initial list on page 2.) …
17 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

The three pillars of the Basel Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… for recycling or recovery industries in the State of import; or the TBM in question is in accordance with other … TBM. Such restrictions may apply to the export or to the import of hazardous wastes and other wastes. The Convention … have the right to prohibit totally or partially the import of hazardous wastes or other wastes into their …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Free Prior and Informed Consent - An indigenous peoples' right and a good practice for local communities - Manual for project practitioners

17 Jun 2026 Literature See it in ECOLEX · This content is provided by ECOLEX

Principles and concepts of international environmental law (Part 2) - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… 4(3)(f) of the 1991 Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of their Transboundary …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Environmental Governance

PIC Chemicals An Introduction to the Chemicals Listed in the Rotterdam Convention that are Subject to the Iinternational Legally-binding Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure

17 Jun 2026 Document