The recommendations from the Chemical Review Committee for amending Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention to be considered by the twelfth meeting of the Conference of the Parties have been circulated to Parties.

Just before the start of the 20th meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC), we talked to Christine Fuell, Senior Technical Officer and Team Leader in FAO’s Plant Production and Protection Division (NSP) and Executive Secretary ad interim of the Rotterdam Convention.

The twentieth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention will take place from 17 to 20 September 2024, at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy, back-to-back with the twentieth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention. Pre-meetings of the intersessional task groups will be held on 16 September 2024.

The Rotterdam Convention COP 12 Bureau meeting took place in Geneva on 15 May 2024.