Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, from 12 to 15 May 2026
Highlights: The Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure (PIC) for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade is a legally binding multilateral environmental agreement, which entered into force in 2004. As of March 2026, the Rotterdam Convention has 168 Parties. The objectives of the Rotterdam Convention are to promote shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among Parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm; and to contribute to the environmentally sound use of those hazardous chemicals. One of the key pillars of the Rotterdam Convention, alongside the Basel Convention and the Stockholm Convention. collectively known as the BRS conventions, is the strengthening of trade controls for hazardous chemicals and wastes covered under these instruments.
Funded by the EU, this workshop targets Caribbean SIDS that are Parties to at least one of the BRS conventions, namely Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St. Lucia, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago.
Organizers: Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions; the Basel Convention Regional Centre for Training and Technology Transfer for the Caribbean (BCRC-Caribbean)
Working language: English (simultaneous translation for Spanish)
Meeting objectives: The overarching objective of this workshop is to strengthen the capacities of the participating SIDS to implement the Rotterdam Convention, to fully comply with its provisions, and to effectively enforce the trade control measures prescribed under the BRS conventions.