Updated information, meeting documents and draft task group reports are now online for the forthcoming, 14^th meeting of the Chemical Review Committee.

BRS chief Rolph Payet participated in discussions at the High-Level Political Forum in New York, at which Sweden announced the launch of the High Ambition Alliance on Chemicals and Waste.

Officials from 5 southern African countries meet in Maputo, Mozambique, for training on notification of final regulatory actions.

The online briefings will provide an overview of the issues that will be considered at the forthcoming meetings of the Rotterdam Convention Chemical Review Committee (CRC) and the Stockholm Convention POPs Review Committee (POPRC), to be held, respectively, on 11-14 September 2018 and 17-21 September 2018, in Rome, Italy.

The BRS Secretariat is proud to publish Edition XLVII of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Circular, a key mechanism for the exchange of information on hazardous chemicals.

Now online: Secretariat report on the implementation of the programmes of work & budgets of the Basel, Rotterdam & Stockholm conventions for the biennium 2016-2017

Hans Dreyer, Director of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Plant Production and Protection Division, has joined the Rotterdam Convention Secretariat, ad interim and effective 1 May 2018.

Documents are now available for the working group meeting in Riga, Latvia, 4-6 June 2018, which considers priority actions for enhancing implementation of the Convention.

Part of the Convention’s Resource Kit, this leaflet addresses the role of the use category and challenges that Parties may experience in this regard.