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Teema: Rotterdam Convention – Questionnaire on exports, export notifications and information
exchange - Year 2020
Manused: UNEP-FAO-RC-COMM-REQ-LTR-ExportNotif-2020.Enrev.pdf
Dear Designated National Authority,
On behalf of the Executive Secretaries of the Rotterdam Convention, Mr. Rolph Payet and Mr. Rémi
Nono Womdim, we are pleased to send you the attached letter on the above subject for your attention
and consideration.
The letter has also been posted on the Rotterdam Convention website:
http://www.pic.int/tabid/8044/Default.aspx#25351
Thank you and we look forward to receiving your submissions.
Best regards,
Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention
United Nations Environment Programme
International Environment House 1
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11 March 2022
Subject: Rotterdam Convention - Questionnaire requesting information on exports, export notifications and information
exchange - Year 2020
Dear Designated National Authority,
At its seventh meeting held in 2015, by decision RC-7/2, the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior
Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade requested the Secretariat to
facilitate the exchange of information and report to each meeting of the Conference of the Parties on the implementation of Articles
11 (paragraph 2), 12 and 14 of the Convention.
At its ninth meeting held in 2019, the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention by decision RC-9/1 encouraged
Parties to provide the Secretariat with information that may assist other Parties to prepare and notify final regulatory actions,
including scientific and technical information relevant to risk evaluation and decision making on hazardous chemicals and
pesticides; as well as texts of national legislation and other measures adopted by the Parties to implement and enforce the
Convention.
Additionally, through decision RC-9/1, the Conference of the Parties urged Parties to:
Ensure the effective implementation of Article 11, which is an important contribution to the fight against the illegal trade in
chemicals that are subject to the Convention;
Ensure proper implementation of Article 13, in particular the stipulation that a safety data sheet that follows an internationally
recognized format be sent to each importer of both chemicals listed in Annex III and chemicals banned or severely restricted in the
exporting country’s territory that are to be used for occupational purposes, in one or more of the official languages of the importing
Party, as far as practicable;
Ensure that the shipping document for an individual chemical or group of chemicals listed in Annex III bears the respective
Harmonized System customs code when exported whenever a code has been assigned.
Further, the Conference of the Parties also invited, through the same decision, Parties, non-Parties, industry, civil society and other
stakeholders to provide to the Secretariat data on the international trade in chemicals listed or recommended for listing in Annex III
to the Rotterdam Convention, as well as information on the measurable impact of listing chemicals in Annex III to the Convention.
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To: Rotterdam Convention Designated National Authorities
cc: Rotterdam Convention Official Contact Points
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
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Following decision RC-9/1, the Secretariat has developed a questionnaire to collect the information relevant to year 2020,
including the relevant items of the decision. The questionnaire is available online on the Convention website at the last section of
the webpage “Call for information and follow-up to the ninth meeting of the
Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention” at www.pic.int/tabid/8044/Default.aspx.
Designated National Authorities (DNAs) of the Parties to the Convention are invited to collaborate with other DNAs, Official
Contact Points (OCPs) and any other relevant stakeholders in order to provide a coordinated response to the questionnaire and to
respond to the online questionnaire with information corresponding to the period from 1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020 by 30
April 2022.
The responses to the questionnaire for the year 2016 received from Parties were reported to the Conference of the Parties at its
ninth meeting in document UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.9/INF/8. The responses to the questionnaires for the years 2017 and 2018 were
reported to the Conference of the Parties at its tenth meeting in document UNEP/FAO/RC/COP.10/INF/7. If your country has
submitted a response for any of those years, you may wish to refer to the above documents for information to facilitate completing
some relevant sections of the current questionnaire. The responses to the Year 2020 questionnaire will be reported to the
Conference of the Parties at its eleventh meeting.
Should you need further clarification in responding to this questionnaire, related to industrial chemicals or technical support on
using the online questionnaire, please contact Mr. Suman Sharma, by e-mail:
[email protected]. For questions on pesticides,
please contact Mr. Aleksandar Mihajlovski, by email:
[email protected].
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Yours sincerely,
For:
Rémi Nono Womdim - FAO Rolph Payet - UNEP
Executive Secretary Executive Secretary