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Art.3.2.b.iii.dx |
The certification shall also include any appropriate supporting documentation, such as legislation, regulatory instruments, or administrative or policy guidelines. The exporting Party shall transmit the certification to the Secretariat within sixty days of receipt. |
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Art.4.1 |
1. A Register is hereby established for the purpose of identifying the Parties that have specific exemptions listed in Annex A or Annex B. It shall not identify Parties that make use of the provisions in Annex A or Annex B that may be exercised by all Parties. The Register shall be maintained by the Secretariat and shall be available to the public. |
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Art.5.1x.a.iv |
(iv) Steps to promote education and training with regard to, and awareness of, those strategies; |
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Art.7.1.b |
(b) Transmit its implementation plan to the Conference of the Parties within two years of the date on which this Convention enters into force for it; and |
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Art.9.1 |
1. Each Party shall facilitate or undertake the exchange of information relevant to: |
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Art.9.1.a |
(a) The reduction or elimination of the production, use and release of persistent organic pollutants; and |
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Art.9.1.b |
(b) Alternatives to persistent organic pollutants, including information relating to their risks as well as to their economic and social costs. |
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Art.9.2 |
2. The Parties shall exchange the information referred to in paragraph 1 directly or through the Secretariat. |
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Art.9.3 |
3. Each Party shall designate a national focal point for the exchange of such information. |
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Art.9.4 |
4. The Secretariat shall serve as a clearing-house mechanism for information on persistent organic pollutants, including information provided by Parties, intergovernmental organizations and non-governmental organizations. |
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Art.9.5 |
5. For the purposes of this Convention, information on health and safety of humans and the environment shall not be regarded as confidential. Parties that exchange other information pursuant to this Convention shall protect any confidential information as mutually agreed. |
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Art.10.1 |
1. Each Party shall, within its capabilities, promote and facilitate: |
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Art.10.1.a |
(a) Awareness among its policy and decision makers with regard to persistent organic pollutants; |
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Art.10.1.b |
(b) Provision to the public of all available information on persistent organic pollutants, taking into account paragraph 5 of Article 9; |
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Art.10.1.c |
(c) Development and implementation, especially for women, children and the least educated, of educational and public awareness programmes on persistent organic pollutants, as well as on their health and environmental effects and on their alternatives; |
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Art.10.1.d |
(d) Public participation in addressing persistent organic pollutants and their health and environmental effects and in developing adequate responses, including opportunities for providing input at the national level regarding implementation of this Convention; |
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Art.10.1.e |
(e) Training of workers, scientists, educators and technical and managerial personnel; |
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Art.10.1.f |
(f) Development and exchange of educational and public awareness materials at the national and international levels; and |
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Art.10.1.g |
(g) Development and implementation of education and training programmes at the national and international levels. |
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Art.10.2 |
2. Each Party shall, within its capabilities, ensure that the public has access to the public information referred to in paragraph 1 and that the information is kept up-to-date. |
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Art.10.3 |
3. Each Party shall, within its capabilities, encourage industry and professional users to promote and facilitate the provision of the information referred to in paragraph 1 at the national level and, as appropriate, subregional, regional and global levels. |
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Art.10.4 |
4. In providing information on persistent organic pollutants and their alternatives, Parties may use safety data sheets, reports, mass media and other means of communication, and may establish information centres at national and regional levels. |
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Art.10.5 |
5. Each Party shall give sympathetic consideration to developing mechanisms, such as pollutant release and transfer registers, for the collection and dissemination of information on estimates of the annual quantities of the chemicals listed in Annex A, B or C that are released or disposed of. |
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Art.11.2.b |
(b) Support national and international efforts to strengthen national scientific and technical research capabilities, particularly in developing countries and countries with economies in transition, and to promote access to, and the exchange of, data and analyses; |
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Art.11.2.e |
(e) Make the results of their research, development and monitoring activities referred to in this paragraph accessible to the public on a timely and regular basis; and |
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Art.13.7.b |
(b) The provision by the entity or entities of regular reports to the Conference of the Parties on adequacy and sustainability of funding for activities relevant to the implementation of this Convention; |
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Art.15.1 |
1. Each Party shall report to the Conference of the Parties on the measures it has taken to implement the provisions of this Convention and on the effectiveness of such measures in meeting the objectives of the Convention. |
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Art.15.2 |
2. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat: |
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Art.15.2.a |
(a) Statistical data on its total quantities of production, import and export of each of the chemicals listed in Annex A and Annex B or a reasonable estimate of such data; and |
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Art.15.2.b |
(b) To the extent practicable, a list of the States from which it has imported each such substance and the States to which it has exported each such substance. |
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Art.15.3 |
3. Such reporting shall be at periodic intervals and in a format to be decided by the Conference of the Parties at its first meeting. |
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Art.16.2.c |
(c) Shall include reports to the Conference of the Parties on the results of the monitoring activities on a regional and global basis at intervals to be specified by the Conference of the Parties. |
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Art.20.2.d |
(d) To prepare and make available to the Parties periodic reports based on information received pursuant to Article 15 and other available information; |
