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Parties and others are invited to comment, by 31 March 2018, on the report analysing the legal and operational implications of priority actions to enhance the effectiveness of the Rotterdam Convention.
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The State of Palestine has acceded to the Rotterdam Convention, depositing its instruments of accession to both the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions on 29 December 2017, with entry into force on 29 March 2018.
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A Happy New Year to all Parties, partners, stakeholders and donors from the BRS Secretariat
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The deadline for responses by Parties has been extended to 15 February 2018.
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The latest version of the Rotterdam Convention PIC Circular is now available online.
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Whilst key resolutions were adopted at the UN Environment Assembly yesterday in Nairobi on marine litter, air and soil pollution, and environment & health, BRS staff took to social media to show their support.
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The Rotterdam and Stockholm scientific subsidiary bodies’ meetings - CRC13 and POPRC13 - successfully concluded recently in Rome, and the official Press Release is now online.
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Together with IUCN, the BRS Secretariat publishes new research showing progress on mainstreaming gender into the work of the 3 chemical conventions.
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The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management – SAICM - invites all stakeholders to share their views through an online survey on information needs.
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Experts attending the forthcoming scientific meetings of the Rotterdam & Stockholm conventions can download our updated App.
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Trilateral cooperation with Italy and the European Union paves the way for Turkey’s implementation of the Rotterdam Convention.
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Preliminary reviews of chemicals to be considered by the next meeting of the Chemical Review Committee (CRC-13) are online.
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UNITAR, the UN’s training and research institute, and the BRS Secretariat, together offer a range of online training modules of relevance for implementing the conventions.
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Turkey has ratified to the Rotterdam Convention, with an entry into force of 20 December 2017.
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The amendments to list carbofuran, trichlorfon, short-chain chlorinated paraffins and tributyltin compounds enter into force on 15 September 2017. Parties are invited to provide import responses by 15 June 2018.
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Iraq recently acceded to the Rotterdam Convention, increasing the number of Parties to 158.
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Secretariat staff from FAO are assisting the Government of Cabo Verde protect rural communities and the environment from the potentially harmful effects of pesticides.
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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has developed a Pesticide Registration Toolkit, which can be used as a decision support system.
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The Advance English version of the report of the eighth meeting of the COP to the Rotterdam Convention is now available online.
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Parties are invited to respond to the online survey, available in English, French and Spanish, by 31 October 2017.
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