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Saatja: BRS Secretariat (No-Reply) <[email protected]> Saadetud: 01.07.2022 15:00 Teema: Call for information in follow-up to 10th meeting of the COP to the Rotterdam Convention (face-to-face segment, 6-17 June 2022) Dear Sir/Madam, We are pleased to attach herewith a letter setting out calls for information in follow-up to the face-to-face segment of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention for your attention and consideration. The letter has also been posted on the . It will, in addition, shortly be sent out and posted in French and Spanish. Thank you and we look forward to receiving your submissions. Best regards, Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions ROTTERDAM CONVENTION Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention United Nations Environment Programme Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Office Address: International Environment House 1 Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy 11–13, chemin des Anémones, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland Tel.: +39 06 5705 2061 ¦ Fax: +39 06 5705 3224 ¦ E-mail: [email protected] Postal Address: c/o Palais des Nations, 8-14, avenue de la Paix, 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland Tel.: +41 (0) 22 917 8271 ¦ Fax: +41 (0) 22 917 8098 ¦ E-mail: [email protected] 28 June 2022 Subject: Call for information in follow-up to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (face-to-face segment, 6-17 June 2022) Dear Sir/Madam, At the face-to-face segment of its tenth meeting, the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention adopted a number of decisions that invited Parties and others to provide information. The full set of decisions adopted at the meeting are contained in Annex I to the meeting report, which will be made available on the Rotterdam Convention website in due course: www.pic.int. To facilitate responses to the various invitations for information, please find enclosed a summary of the individual decisions that contain such invitations. Please bear in mind that this letter does not reflect the full set of decisions. The information set out in this letter is also available on the Convention’s website under: “Call for information in follow-up to the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention”. Please note that similar letters will also be sent to Parties and observers to the Basel and Stockholm conventions as a follow-up to the face-to-face segments of the fifteenth and tenth meetings of their respective conferences of the Parties. The invitations for information pertaining to joint issues of the three conventions have been included in each of the individual letters. In decisions RC-10/3 and RC-10/4, the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention agreed to list decabromodiphenyl ether and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds in Annex III to the Convention. A separate letter will be sent to solicit your import responses for those chemicals, at the time the amendments to list them in Annex III to the Convention enter into force on 22 October 2022. Should you have any queries, please contact Ms. Andrea Lechner, Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions (E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: +41 22 917 88 53). We look forward to receiving your submissions. Yours sincerely, For: Rolph Payet Rémi Nono Womdim Executive Secretary of the Basel, Rotterdam and Executive Secretary of the Rotterdam Convention Stockholm Conventions Enc: Follow-up to the face-to-face segment of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention To: Rotterdam Convention Official Contact Points Rotterdam Convention Designated National Authorities Members of the Bureau of the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention Observers admitted to the meetings of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention cc: Representatives of the Permanent Missions to the United Nations Office at Geneva Representatives of Permanent Missions to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Rome Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention Page | 2 Follow-up to the face-to-face segment of the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention 1. Status of implementation ........................................................................................................................................... 3 2. Programme of work of the Rotterdam Convention Compliance Committee for the biennium 2022-2023........... 4 3. Synergies in preventing and combating illegal traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals and wastes ................. 5 4. Dates and venue of the next meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions....................................................................................................................................................... 6 Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention Page | 3 1. Status of implementation Decision: RC-10/4: Status of implementation Background: At the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties, Parties were encouraged, among other things, to adopt, as soon as possible, a national definition for the term “pesticide” and communicate national definitions to the Secretariat; to provide the Secretariat with information that might assist other Parties to prepare and notify final regulatory actions; and to provide information on their implementation of paragraph 2 of Article 11, and Articles 12 and 14 of the Convention by submitting responses to the periodic questionnaire on the implementation of those articles. Parties, non-Parties, industry, civil society and other stakeholders were invited to provide to the Secretariat data on the international trade in chemicals listed or recommended for listing in Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention. Follow-up: Calls for information Respondents Deadlines for submission (a) Parties are encouraged to communicate Parties No deadline specified; national definitions for the term “pesticide” information to be to the Secretariat. submitted as soon as possible. (b) Parties are encouraged to provide the Parties No deadline specified; Secretariat with information that might information to be assist other Parties to prepare and notify submitted as soon as final regulatory actions, including: possible. (i) Scientific and technical information relevant to risk evaluation and decision-making on hazardous chemicals and pesticides; (ii) Texts of national legislation and other measures adopted by them to implement and enforce the Convention. (c) Parties are encouraged to provide Parties Deadline to be indicated information on their implementation of in the questionnaires to paragraph 2 of Article 11, and Articles 12 be sent out on this topic. and 14 of the Convention by submitting responses to the periodic questionnaire on the implementation of those articles. (d) Parties, non-Parties, industry, civil society Parties, non- No deadline specified; and other stakeholders are invited to Parties, industry, information to be provide to the Secretariat data on the civil society, other submitted as soon as international trade in chemicals listed or stakeholders possible. recommended for listing in Annex III to the Rotterdam Convention Contact persons: (a) Ms. Christine Fuell, email: [email protected]; (b) Mr. Aleksandar Mihajlovski, email: [email protected]; Ms. Yvonne Ewang-Sanvincenti, email: [email protected]; (c) Mr. Jost Dittkrist, email: [email protected]; (d) Ms. Andrea Lechner, email: [email protected]. Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention Page | 4 2. Programme of work of the Rotterdam Convention Compliance Committee for the biennium 2022-2023 Decision: RC-10/11: Programme of work for the Rotterdam Convention Compliance Committee for the biennium 2022-2023 Background: By decision RC-10/11, the Conference of the Parties adopted the programme of work of the Compliance Committee for the biennium 2022-2023. The Conference of the Parties furthermore urged Parties unable to comply with certain obligations under the Convention or Parties directly affected or likely to be directly affected by another Party’s alleged failure to comply with the obligations of the Convention to make submissions to the Secretariat pursuant to paragraph 12 of Annex VII to the Convention. Follow up: Deadlines for Calls for information Respondents submission Parties unable to comply with certain Parties No deadline specified; obligations under the Convention or Parties information to be directly affected or likely to be directly submitted through the affected by another Party’s alleged failure to Official Contact comply with the obligations of the Points as soon as Convention are urged to make submissions possible. to the Secretariat pursuant to paragraph 12 of Annex VII to the Convention. Contact point: Ms. Yvonne Ewang-Sanvincenti, email: [email protected]. Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention Page | 5 3. Synergies in preventing and combating illegal traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals and wastes Decisions: BC-15/27, RC-10/13 and SC-10/23: Synergies in preventing and combating illegal traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals and wastes Background: In part I of the abovementioned decisions, the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention, among other things, adopted the form to enable Parties to the Convention to voluntarily provide information about cases of trade occurring in contravention of the Convention and encouraged Parties to provide information about such cases of trade using the adopted form. In part III of those decisions, the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions invited Parties to the three conventions to provide best practices for preventing and combating illegal traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals and wastes covered by the conventions, including the texts of any measures that have been adopted by them for that purpose. Follow-up: Call for information Respondents Method of Deadlines submission for submission (a) Parties to the Rotterdam Convention are Parties Please As encouraged to provide information about cases submit appropriate of trade occurring in contravention of the information Rotterdam Convention; about cases of trade occurring in contravention of the Convention using the prescribed form 1 (b) Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Parties Please make As conventions are invited to provide best submissions appropriate practices for preventing and combating illegal to the traffic and trade in hazardous chemicals and Secretariat wastes covered by the Basel, Rotterdam and via the Stockholm conventions, including the texts of contact any measures that have been adopted by them person for that purpose. provided below Contact person: Ms. Tatiana Terekhova, email: [email protected]. 1 UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.10/INF/32–UNEP/POPS/COP.10/INF/52. Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention Page | 6 4. Dates and venue of the next meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions Decisions: BC-15/29, RC-10/15 and SC-10/25: Dates and venue of the next meetings of the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions Background: In the above-mentioned decisions, the conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm conventions, among other things, invited Parties to the conventions to submit offers to host the 2025 meetings of the conferences of the Parties, if possible by 1 March 2023, for consideration during the meetings of the conferences of the Parties in 2023. Follow-up: Deadlines for Call for information Respondents submission Parties to submit offers to host the 2025 meetings of the Parties 1 March 2023 conferences of the Parties for consideration during the meetings of the conferences of the Parties in 2023. Contact person: Mr. David Ogden, email: [email protected].