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BRS TA Newsletter

Abuja, Nigeria, 14-16 May 2024

Highlights: The Rotterdam Convention (RC) on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC) for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade is a legally binding multilateral environmental agreement, which entered into force in 2004. Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and The Gambia are all Parties to the Rotterdam Convention. They have been identified among Parties in need of technical assistance in the context of the EU-funded Global Public Goods and Challenges project ‘Implementation of activities approved by the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention in 2019 for the biennium 2020-2021’.

Organizers: Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, Basel Convention Coordinating Centre for the African Region located in Nigeria (BCCC-Nigeria)

Working language: English

Meeting objectives: The overarching objective of this workshop is to strengthen the capacities of the participating Parties to implement the Rotterdam Convention and to fully comply with its provisions, including the submission of missing import responses for chemicals listed in Annex III of the Convention.
Target audience: The primary target audience of the workshop are the Designated National Authorities and other relevant government representatives with a role in implementation of the Rotterdam Convention.

• Delivered presentations on objectives, key provisions, and mechanisms of the RC; FAO pesticides registration toolkit; submission of Import Responses; Notifications of Final Regulatory Actions (FRAs) and FRA Evaluation toolkit; hazard, exposure and risk evaluation and management; legislation, registration, and authorization systems; proposals for Severely Hazardous Pesticide Formulations (SHPFs); Gap analysis and NAPs: template and examples.
• Attended to Parties presentations and engaging with them in structured discussions on their national situations in chemicals’ management and status of RC implementation.
• Assisted DNAs and other government representatives during group exercises to analyse national gaps and draft National Action Plans (NAPs).
• Offered general technical guidance to participants during peer-to-peer exchanges to identify priorities and facilitate next steps towards improved implementation of the RC.

For more information on the meeting, please contact Jost Dittkrist (jost.dittkrist@un.org).