The nineteenth meeting of the Rotterdam Convention Chemical Review Committee will take place from 3 to 6 October 2023 in Rome, Italy, back-to-back with the nineteenth meeting of the Stockholm Convention POPs Review Committee.

Check out the various calls for information and nominations set out in decisions of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Rotterdam Convention.

Published on a biannual basis, the PIC Circular is a key document in the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention, both for the operation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure, and for the exchange of information on hazardous chemicals.

The online briefings will provide an overview of the issues that will be considered by the next meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions and introduce the schedule of the meetings of the conferences of the Parties and other practical information.

Download and read the final report of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention on the work of its resumed tenth meeting (face-to-face and high-level segments), held in June 2022. 

Download and read the final report for the Chemical Review Committee on the work of its eighteenth meeting.

The three-day training session was designed to support new members to fully contribute to the intersessional work building up to the nineteenth meeting of the Committee in October 2023. The workshop consisted of theoretical concepts and practical case studies aimed to further develop the technical ...

Regional preparatory meetings for the upcoming meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions are taking place in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Eastern Europe and GRULAC regions during March 2023.

The objective of these webinars is for the proponents and co-sponsors to provide information on their proposal to amend Articles 7, 10, 11 and 22 of the Rotterdam Convention and to add a new Annex VIII.

The objective of this online briefing is to inform Parties to the Basel and Rotterdam Conventions, observers and other stakeholders on the outcomes of the fifteenth meeting of the Basel Convention Implementation and Compliance Committee (BC ICC-15) and the first meeting of the Rotterdam Convention&r...

All side events will be held during lunch breaks and in the evenings. The deadline for applications is 1 March 2023.

Published on a biannual basis, the PIC Circular is a key document in the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention, both for the operation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure, and for the exchange of information on hazardous chemicals.

Key document on Prior Informed Consent issued for 56th time, sharing information to assist and inform Parties for better decision-making regarding pesticides and chemicals.

The meeting took place in Geneva, Switzerland, on 25 October 2022.