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POPs Review Committee – Listing new chemicals

… to review chemicals proposed by Parties for listing. The Committee comprises 31 government- designated experts in chemical management from all UN regions. POPs Review Committee (POPRC) ‐  listing new chemicals For more … then issued to the POPRC. 2. Apply screening criteria The Committee examines the proposal and applies screening …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

The Basel Convention mechanism for promoting the implementation and compliance - Celebrating a decade of assistance to Parties

… Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the Committee that is entrusted with administering that mechanism (“the Implementation and Compliance Committee”) decided to prepare, as part of its 2009- 2011 … brochure – a brief overview of the activities of the Committee carried out during the period 2002 – 2011. The …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

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

… Flora COP Conference of the Parties CRC Chemicals Review Committee CWC Convention on the Prohibition of the … biphenyls POPRC Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee POPs Persistent Organic Pollutants RECETOX Research … the public . Mexico is working on transforming the committee set up to develop its NIP into a national …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Convention text of the Minamata Convention on Mercury

… binding instrument. An intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on … session of the Governing Council in 2013. The committee 1 As of February 2013, the designation of the … text. In January 2013, the intergovernmental negotiating committee concluded its fifth session by agreeing on the text …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

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

… degradation. • It establishes a scientific experts’ committee, called the POPs Review Committee, which regularly considers additional candidates … a new listing by stating the reasons for its concern. The Committee follows a structured evaluation process that …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

At a glance: Minamata Convention on Mercury

…  The establishment of an Implementation and Compliance Committee (Article 15) 3. Information and awareness raising … has been undertaken by an intergovernmental negotiating committee that met in five sessions from June 2010 in … The fifth session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee agreed the final draft text of the Minamata …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Basel Convention: Institutional framework and the synergies process - extract from InforMEA e-learning course

… OEGW is adopted by the Conference of the Parties. b. The Committee administering the Mechanism for Promoting … compliance with the obligations under the Convention. The Committee has a double mandate: under its specific submission mandate, the Committee shall consider any submission made to it in …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Articles related to the implementation and institutional arrangements of the Minamata Convention

… awareness raising articles (Articles 19-22) 4. Compliance committee and effective evaluation (Articles 15 and 22) 5. … financial and economic information. 4. Compliance committee and effective evaluation (Articles 15 and 22) The Convention establishes a mechanism, including a Committee as a subsidiary body of the COP, to promote …
17 Jun 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Ratification and Implementation Guidelines

… Mechanisms Article 15: Implementation and Compliance Committee (ICC) Objective and Mandate of the ICC Composition … Convention on Mercury Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 1 Foreword It has been my honour and privilege to … much to do, both for the Intergovernmen- tal Negotiating Committee (INC), and for governments and other stakeholders. …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

Overview of key operational articles under the Minamata Convention on Mercury

… such notifications, and the Implementation and Compliance Committee is to review and evaluate such notifications and … At its seventh session, the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on … At its sixth session, the intergovernmental negotiating committee adopted, on a provisional basis pending the first …
17 Jun 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste