Twenty-first meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC.21)

Rome, Italy, 23-26 September 2025

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

Overview

The twenty-first meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention will take place from 23 to 26 September 2024 in Rome, back to back with the twenty-first meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention. Pre-meetings of the intersessional task groups will be held on 22 September 2025.

At its twenty-first meeting, the Committee is scheduled to review up to 30 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, chlorfenvinphos, ethion, methidathion, phenthoate, profenofos, prothiofos, quinalphos and thiodicarb, as well as three proposals for listing severely hazardous pesticide formulations discussed during the twentieth 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-first meeting

Chemical name

CAS No.

Category

PIC Region

Party

PIC Circular

Carbaryl

63-25-2

Pesticide

Europe

Serbia

Circular LIX

Chlorothalonil

1897-45-6

Pesticide

Europe

European Union

Circular LIII

Pesticide

Latin America and Caribbean

Costa Rica

Circular LX

Dichlorvos

62-73-7

Pesticide

Europe

European Union

Circular LX

Diazinon

333-41-5

Pesticide

Africa

Mozambique

Circular LV

Pesticide

Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Circular L

Pesticide

Europe

European Union

Circular XXXII

Pesticide

Europe

Türkiye

Circular LIII

Pesticide

Europe

Serbia

Circular LIX

Dicofol

115-32-2

Pesticide

Europe

Switzerland

Circular XXIV

Pesticide

Europe

Türkiye

Circular LVII

Pesticide

Latin America and Caribbean

Chile

Circular LVII

Pesticide

Latin America and Caribbean

Peru

Circular LIII

Fenamiphos

22224-92-6

Pesticide

Africa

Mozambique

Circular LV

Pesticide

Europe

European Union

Circular LVII

Fipronil

120068-37-3

Pesticide

Africa

Cabo Verde

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Africa

Chad

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Africa

Gambia

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Africa

Mauritania

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Africa

Niger

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Africa

Senegal

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Africa

Togo

Circular XLI

Pesticide

Europe

European Union

Circular LX

Pesticide

Europe

Türkiye

Circular LIV

Methiocarb

2032-65-7

Pesticide

Africa

Mozambique

Circular LV

Pesticide

Europe

European Union

Circular LVI

Methomyl

16752-77-5

Pesticide

Africa

Mozambique

Circular LV

Pesticide

Latin America and the Caribbean

Uruguay

Circular L

Pesticide

Latin America and the Caribbean

Chile

Circular LVIII

Methyl-parathion

298-00-0

Pesticide

Latin America and the Caribbean

Brazil

Circular LX


Given the high workload with a large number of notifications in front of the Committee and in light of the time available, the Bureau of the Chemical Review Committee decided that other notifications of final regulatory action awaiting review by the Committee would be considered at a future meeting. 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 additionally decided to prioritize consideration of chemicals that would undergo intersessional work prior to the twenty-first 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-first meeting.

Meeting documents

  • Working documents
  • Information documents