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Rotterdam Agreement

11/02/2023

The Rotterdam Agreement entered into force in 2004. The Convention seeks to promote shared responsibility and joint efforts of the Parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals, in order to protect human health and the environment. Its main objectives are:

To promote shared responsibility and joint efforts of the Parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals, in order to protect the health of living beings and the environment from potential harm.
To contribute to the environmentally sound use of these substances by facilitating the exchange of information about their characteristics.
To establish national decision-making processes on the import and export of these substances, disseminating this information to the parties.
To this end, the law covers banned or severely restricted industrial chemicals and pesticides and severely hazardous pesticide formulations.

Prior Informed Consent

The Convention establishes a Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure for the import of hazardous chemicals, in which the exporting country must inform the importing country of the risks of that substance, if any.

PIC is a mechanism that allows the Parties to the Convention to obtain and disseminate information on the hazardous chemicals listed in Annex III. This information will be analyzed by the importing country which, according to its local legislation, will approve or not the entry of such product. In this way, the aim is to ensure compliance with these decisions by the exporting Parties.

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