Rotterdam convention on the prior informed consent procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade
The objective of this Convention is 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, by providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and by disseminating these decisions to Parties.
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Number of pages
46 p.
Publication year
2011