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At a glance: Minamata Convention on Mercury

26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

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

26 May 2026 Course lesson in Chemicals and Waste

Moving towards effective implementation

26 May 2026 Document in Chemicals and Waste

The Green Customs Guide to Multilateral Environmental Agreements

… of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction (CWC) * 46 * … agreements (MEAs) or other treaties, such as the Chemical Weapons Convention. Effective monitoring and control … of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, the Convention on …
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A Guide to Cooperation on the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

… country decides not to accept imports of a particular chemical or pesticide covered by the treaty, other countries … all address the same fundamental challenge: the most toxic chemical products of our industrial civilization must be … order to promote the safe use, transport and disposal of chemical substances. Participants in the project learn to use …
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Guidance to Designated National Authorities on the operation of the Rotterdam Convention

… ANY 2.1 This is a f irs t time import response for th is chemical in the country . 2.2 This is a modification of a … response (Fill in section 5 below) SECTION 1 IDENTITY OF CHEMICAL 1.1 Common name 1.2 CAS number Pestic ide Industrial … MEASURES 4.1 No consent to import Is the import of the chemical from al l sources simultaneously prohibited? Yes No …
26 May 2026 Document

Ridding the world of POPs: a Guide to the Stockholm Convention Persitent Organic Polluants

… insulation against freezing temperatures. Consequently the chemical contamination builds to higher levels in these … the Convention covers two families of unintentional chemical by-pro- ducts: polychlorinated dioxins and furans. … than it might have been, let alone that a particular chemical is the culprit. Nervous-system damage may result in …
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Technical guidelines on hazardous waste from the production and use of organic solvents (Y16)

… in several ways, for example by industrial application, by chemical family, or by some property based description. The annex 2 shows groups of solvents by chemical type, or family. 3. Solvents display a very wide … substances, and as a carrying and/or dispersion medium in chemical synthetic processes. Users include many sectors of …
26 May 2026 Document

The SHPF toolkit - A toolkit to help you to monitor and report incidents of pesticide poisoning caused by Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations in your country under Article 6 of the Rotterdam Convention

… and to bring the expertise of the Secretariat and the Chemical Review Committee to bear on such issues. It allows … a pesticide as ‘any substance or mixture of substances of chemical or biological ingredients, intended for repelling, … poisoning with the major part being from preventable chemical exposures. Of these deaths, 84% occurred in low- and …
26 May 2026 Document

Climate Change and POPs: Predicting the Impacts

… production, use, release and unsafe disposal. These are chemical substances that have toxic properties, resist … as a result of incomplete combustion and/or chemical reactions3. Some of the chemicals fit into more than … generated POP s result from side- reactions in thermal and chemical processes (e.g., polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins …
26 May 2026 Document