When two notifications for the same chemical from two different PIC regions have been verified to meet the information requirements of Annex I to the Convention, this chemical becomes a "candidate chemical" and is scheduled for review by the Chemical Review Committee (CRC).

When one proposal for a severely hazardous pesticide formulation (SHPF) from a developing country or a country with an economy in transition has been verified to contain the information required by Part 2 of Annex IV of the Convention, this formulation becomes a candidate formulation for listing in Annex III and is scheduled for review by the CRC.

Chemicals scheduled for review by the Chemical Review Committee

The following chemicals will be reviewed by the future meetings of the Chemical Review Committee. Due to the large number of candidate chemicals, the CRC bureau is deciding on the schedule and the priority of the candidate chemicals for review at its upcoming meetings.

For each chemical that the Chemical Review Committee has decided to recommend for listing in Annex III, it shall prepare a draft decision guidance document (DGD). The recommendation together with the draft DGD shall be forwarded to the Conference of the Parties. The Conference of the Parties shall decide whether the chemical should be made subject to the Prior Informed Consent procedure and, accordingly, list the chemical in Annex III and approve the draft decision guidance document.

List of chemicals for which DGDs are under development, including Parties that submitted the FRA notifications, decisions of the Chemical Review Committee, development status of the draft DGDs, composition of the intersessional drafting groups and workplans for the preparation of draft DGDs: