Assisting parties to protect human health and the environment
September/October 2017 - No. 15
Welcome
Dear Readers,
Much is happening in the world of sound management of chemicals and waste, as this edition of our newsletter will show. Below you will find details of the latest country to become a Party to one of the #Detox conventions, upcoming scientific subsidiary body meetings, the entry into force of the decision to list 4 new chemicals, and much more. #Detox!
Parties will make use of a new electronic reporting system, including new questions, live soon on the Basel Convention website, for 2016 national reports (deadline December 31).
BRS is contributing to GESAMP – the UN-wide, global scientific initiative on protecting the marine environment – reflecting the mandate to work on marine litter given at the last COPs.
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.
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.
It’s that season again. It’s the season for the two @UN #Detox technical committees, the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention and the POPs Review Committee of the Stockholm Convention, to meet in the FAO headquarters in Rome to review chemicals for listing under the conventions
Scientific experts of the Chemicals Review Committee will meet from 23 to 27 October to, inter alia, consider final regulatory actions for 13 chemicals.
Scientific experts of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee will meet from 17 to 20 October to discuss, inter alia, the toxic chemicals dicofol, PFOA, PFOS, and PFHxS.
Secretariat staff from FAO are assisting the Government of Cabo Verde protect rural communities and the environment from the potentially harmful effects of pesticides.
