Nineteenth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC.19)

Rome, Italy, 3-6 October 2023

Venue: FAO Headquarters, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy.

Overview

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

At its nineteenth meeting, the Committee will consider draft decision guidance documents for methyl bromide and paraquat.
Additionally, in line with the procedures for banned or severely restricted chemicals (Article 5, paragraphs 5 and 6), the Committee will review the following notifications of final regulatory action forwarded by the Secretariat, in accordance to the criteria set out in Annex II to the Convention:

Candidate chemical CAS No. Category PIC Region Notifying Party Published in PIC Circular
Diarsenic pentaoxide
(Also referred to as arsenic pentoxide (CAS No. 1303-28-2))
1303-28-2 Industrial Asia Republic of Korea Circular XX
Industrial Europe

European Union

Circular LV

Bromacil   314-40-9   Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LIV
Pesticide Latin America and the Caribbean Costa Rica Circular LII
Chlorpyrifos 2921-88-2 Pesticide Asia Malaysia Circular XLVII
Pesticide  Asia  Sri Lanka  Circular XLIX 
Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LIV
Pesticide Europe European Union Circular LVI
Ethion 563-12-2 Pesticide Africa Mozambique Circular LV
Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LIII
Mercury

 

7439-97-6   Pesticide& Industrial Asia Indonesia Circular LIII
Industrial Europe Türkiye Circular LIII
Industrial Latin America and the Caribbean Colombia Circular LII
Industrial Europe European Union Circular LVI

Due to a high workload of notifications of final regulatory action to be reviewed by the Chemical Review Committee, the Bureau prioritized the work of the Committee. Notifications for the above-listed chemicals will be considered by the Committee at its nineteenth meeting, together with notifications whose consideration has not been completed at the eighteenth meeting. Additional notifications of final regulatory action awaiting review by the Chemical Review Committee will be considered at a future meeting of the Committee. Originally, the intersessional work included the review of notifications of final regulatory action for brodifacoum. Following the withdrawal by one Party of its notification, the Committee only has before it one notification of final regulatory action from one Prior Informed Consent region for this chemical, which has consequently been removed from the provisional agenda of the nineteenth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee.

For more information about the intersessional work, including draft intersessional task group reports, please visit the “Task Groups” webpage.

Meeting documents

  • Working documents
  • Information documents

Webinars

Online briefings on the nineteenth meetings of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC) of the Rotterdam Convention and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) of the Stockholm Convention

The online briefings will provide an overview of the issues that will be considered by the nineteenth meetings of the CRC and POPRC, to be held respectively from 3 to 6 October 2023 and from 9 to 13 October 2022, in Rome, Italy.

Online briefings on the nineteenth meetings of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC) of the Rotterdam Convention and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) of the Stockholm Convention

Online briefings on the nineteenth meetings of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC) of the Rotterdam Convention and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) of the Stockholm Convention