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ROTTERDAM CONVENTION PRIOR INFORMED CONSENT (PIC) PROCEDURE CERTAIN HAZARDOUS CHEMICALS PESTICIDES INTERNATIONAL TRADE [1 record]

Record 1 2006-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Conventions, Treaties and Agreements (Documents)
  • Standards and Regulations (Chemistry)
OBS

The Rotterdam Convention is a multilateral environmental agreement designed 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 their environmentally sound use by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and disseminating these decisions to Parties.

Key term(s)
  • Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade
  • Rotterdam Convention

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de conventions, de traités et d'accords (Documents)
  • Normes et réglementation (Chimie)
OBS

La Convention de Rotterdam est un accord environnemental multilatéral dont l'objectif est d'encourager le partage des responsabilités et la coopération entre Parties dans le domaine du commerce international de certains produits chimiques dangereux, afin de protéger la santé des personnes et l'environnement contre les préjudices éventuels, et de contribuer à l'utilisation écologiquement rationnelle de ces produits en facilitant l'échange d'informations sur leurs caractéristiques, en instituant un processus national de prise de décisions applicable à leur importation et à leur exportation et en divulguant ces décisions auprès des Parties.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de convenciones, tratados y acuerdos (Documentos)
  • Normas y reglamentaciones (Química)
OBS

El Convenio de Rotterdam es un acuerdo multilateral cuyo objetivo es de promover la responsabilidad compartida y los esfuerzos conjuntos de las Partes en la esfera del comercio internacional de ciertos productos químicos peligrosos, a fin de proteger la salud humana y el medio ambiente frente a posibles daños y contribuir a su utilización ecológicamente racional, facilitando el intercambio de información acerca de sus característicias, estableciendo un proceso nacional de adopción de decisiones sobre su importación y exportación y difundiendo esas decisiones a las Partes.

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