Twenty-second meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC.22)

Rome, Italy, 15-18 September 2026

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

Overview

The twenty-second meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention will take place from 15 to 18 September 2026 in Rome, back to back with the twenty-second meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention. Pre-meetings of the intersessional task groups will be held on 14 September 2026.

At its twenty-second meeting, the Committee is scheduled to review up to 22 new notifications of final regulatory action in accordance with the criteria set out in Annex II to the Convention, as listed below. The Committee will also continue reviewing notifications of final regulatory action on carbaryl, fenamiphos, phenthoate, profenofos, prothiofos, and quinalphos discussed during the twenty-first meeting but consideration of which was not completed at that meeting.

New notifications of final regulatory action scheduled for review by the Committee at its twenty-second meeting

Candidate chemical CAS No. Category PIC Region Party PIC Circular
Atrazine 1912-24-9 Pesticide Europe Bosnia and Herzegovina Circular LIII
Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LIII
Pesticide Latin America and Caribbean Uruguay Circular L
Azinphos-ethyl 2642-71-9 Pesticide Asia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Circular XLVI
Pesticide Asia Thailand Circular XIV
Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LIII
Endrin 72-20-8 Pesticide Asia Indonesia Circular LIII
Pesticide Latin America and the Caribbean Ecuador Circular LII
Pesticide Latin America and the Caribbean Guyana Circular XXVI
Pesticide Latin America and the Caribbean Uruguay Circular XXVIII
Lead chromates 12656-85-8, 1344-37-2, 7758-97-6 Industrial Africa Cameroon Circular LX
Industrial Africa Morocco Circular LX
Industrial Europe Switzerland Circular LXI
Industrial Southwest Pacific Australia Circular LXII
Mephosfolan 950-10-7 Pesticide Asia Thailand Circular XIV
Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LIV
Methomyl 16752-77-5
Pesticide Asia Thailand Circular LXI
Pesticide Latin America and the Caribbean Chile Circular LVIII
Phosphamidon 13171-21-6 Pesticide Asia China Circular L
Pesticide Asia Indonesia Circular LIII
Pesticide Latin America and the Caribbean Chile Circular LIX
Prothoate 2275-18-5 Pesticide Asia Thailand Circular XIV
Pesticide Europe Türkiye Circular LVII

In line with the procedure for dealing with notifications of final regulatory action to ban or severely restrict a chemical (section 1.6 of the Handbook of working procedures and policy guidance for the Chemical Review Committee), the Bureau decided to prioritize consideration of chemicals that would undergo intersessional work prior to the twenty-second meeting of the Committee. Thus, a number of notifications that according to the preliminary review undertaken by the Secretariat and the Bureau appear to not meet the criteria of Annex II to the Convention, would not undergo intersessional work but would be considered directly by the Committee at its twenty-second meeting. For more information on the intersessional work, see document UNEP/FAO/RC/CRC.22/2 and the task groups webpage.

Meeting documents

  • Working documents
  • Information documents