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Overview of key operational articles under the Minamata Convention on Mercury

… cell chlor-alkali facilities will have to be phased out by 2025. Decommissioning these facilities will generate … compound that was intentionally added” (Article 2(f)). PHASING OUT OF MERCURY-ADDED PRODUCTS For the products listed … exemptions will apply after 2030 (Article 6, paragraph 9). PHASING DOWN OF MERCURY-ADDED PRODUCTS For the products …
26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Ratification and Implementation Guidelines

… Article 4: Mercury-Added Products (MAPs) MAPs Phased Out Under the Convention Products Excluded from Phase Out Requirements Alternative Method for Addressing Mercury in … may be a good way to focus national efforts to start phasing down amalgam. This measure could ef- fectively …
26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Synergies Success Stories - Enhancing cooperation and coordination among the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions

… and elaborates concrete cross-cutting activities carried out by work groups . In Venezuela, a Presidential Commission … IV 132,347 Institutional strengthening — Phase V 132,347 Phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) at refrigeration plant of “Frinko” 1,081,724 Phasing out of CFC-11 from flexible slabstock foam …
26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

MEA Negotiator’s Handbook

… handbook back in 1972. At that time we still had to work out the ideas, tools and approaches you can now fi nd in the … The principles and particulars of the system are laid out well in this handbook. But we need to keep working on … technical language is provided, used in context, and set out in a new glossary. The glossary, contributed by UNEP, is …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

… Assembly. | 4 was provided with a detailed mandate setting out specific issues to be covered in the text of the … and releases of mercury and mercury compounds and it sets out a range of measures to meet that objective. These include … or (ii) Environmentally sound interim storage as set out in Article 10; or (b) To a non-Party that has provided …
26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

The Minamata Convention on Mercury and its implementation in the Latin America and Caribbean region

… consensus positions, which – to a great extent – set out the unique personality of the legally binding agreement. … With the aim of phasing out the use of mercury in hospitals, the NGO Health … issues. Other challenges related to mercury include phasing it out from certain products and processes, such as …
26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Operational articles of the Minamata Convention - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… submit a general notification to the Secretariat setting out the terms and conditions of its consents. The Secretariat … products (Article 4) Part I of Annex A schedules the phase-out by 2020 of several mercury-added products. The list … may register for one or more exemptions from the phase-out dates listed in Annex A. An review of Annex A is required …
26 May 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Guidance on the Practical Application of the Espoo Convention

… may be differently structured in legislation or carried out in practice in different ways depending on the historical … transboundary assessments have proved to help in carrying out the assessments. 10. For those Parties that frequently … is the authority that is designated by the Party to carry out the practical application of the Convention nationally …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance

Ridding the world of POPs - A guide to the Stockholm Convention on POPs

… that a special effort may sometimes be needed to phase out certain chemicals for specific uses and seeks to ensure … that a special effort may sometimes be needed to phase out certain chemicals for specific uses and seeks to ensure … but gives countries until 2025 to take action to phase out the use of equipment containing PCBs. The recovered PCBs …
26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Addressing pollution: Governance frameworks, challenges and oppotunities in the context of the 2030 Agenda

… roughly $3.7 billion to more than 140 countries to phase out ozone-depleting substances, with lasting influence on … largest global companies in the sector, have committed to phasing out lead paint. However, there are concerns that … achieved: the healing of the ozone layer (Box 7) and the phasing out of lead in fuel (Box 5). Traditional pollution …
26 May 2026 Document in Environmental Governance