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The Rotterdam Convention aims to introduce other dangerous pesticides and chemicals fifteen
22/09/2004
on September 22, 2004
Representatives of 100 countries met this week in Geneva for the first ministerial Conference on the Rotterdam Convention, in order to address the extension of the Treaty to include other fifteen pesticides and hazardous chemicals whose trade should be reported publicly.
Backed by the UN organisation for food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the programme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Convention allows its Member States to warn each other of the possible dangers associated with these products; Thus, if a country take measures to prohibit or restrict any chemical for health or environmental reasons, other countries must be informed.
In the same way, when a country prohibits or restricts a chemical or pesticide domestically but authorizes export, you must provide a note with detailed and practical information on the chemical and its transport to the importer.
The fifteen "candidates" to the list are: binapacryl, toxaphene, dichloride of ethylene oxide, ethylene, DNOC and its salts, monocrotophos, severely hazardous pesticide formulations of dry powder with 7% or more, benomyl carbofurano for 10% or more, tiram 15% or more, asbestos actinolite, anthophyllite asbestos, asbestos amosite, asbestos tremolite, tetraethyl lead and tetramethyl lead and parathion asbestos crisolito.
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