Introduction
At its 12th meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention adopted the decisions contained in the addendum to the report of the meeting set out in document UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.12/28/Add.1. Several of those decisions included invitations to Parties and others to provide information.
The following letter was sent to Parties and observers with a summary of the individual decisions that contain invitations for information and comments. The individual invitations to submit information are organized by relevant COP agenda items. Information sought in each item can be transmitted separately, since the deadlines for submission vary.
Response from Parties to these calls for information need to be transmitted by their duly designated Official Contact Point.
Similar letters have also been prepared to solicit information sought in follow-up to 17th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention and 12th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention and are available on the Basel and Stockholm Convention’s websites.
Following decisions RC-12/3 and RC-12/4 on the listing of carbosulfan and fenthion (ultra-low-volume formulations at or above 640 g active ingredient/L) in Annex III to the Convention, the Secretariat will send a separate letter to Parties on 22 October 2025 circulating the related Decision Guidance Documents and inviting Parties to submit import responses.