Ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention, Geneva, Switzerland
The Conference of the Parties (COP) is the governing body of the Rotterdam Convention. It is composed of governments of countries that have accepted, ratified or acceded to it. The implementation of the Convention is advanced through the decisions it takes at its meetings. Meetings of the Conferences of the Parties are usually held every two years. The ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP-9) was held back to back with the fourteenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP-14) and the ninth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP-9), from 29 April to 10 May 2019 in Geneva. The theme of the meetings was "Clean Planet, Healthy People: Sound Management of Chemicals and Waste".
The decisions related to Technical Assistance taken by the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Rotterdam Convention are listed below: