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Researcher: 
S.Burke
Data entry notes: 
By letter dated 16 August 2017, the Executive Secretaries of the Rotterdam Convention informed the depositary on 21 August 2017 that at its eighth meeting, held in Geneva from 24 April to 5 May 2017, by decisions RC-8/2, RC-8/3, RC-8/4 and RC-8/5, the Conference of the Parties to the above Convention, in accordance with the procedure laid down in paragraph 5 of article 22 of the Convention, adopted amendments to Annex III. In accordance with paragraph 5 (c) of article 22 of the Convention, the Conference of the Parties, in the same decisions, decided that these amendments will enter into force for all Parties on 15 September 2017.
Treaty Name and Text
Agreement Name: 
2017 Amendments to Annex III of the Convention On The Prior Informed Consent Procedure For Certain Hazardous Chemicals And Pesticides In International Trade (listing of carbofuran, trichlorfon, short-chain chlorinated paraffins, and tributyltin)
Signature/Entry into Force/Termination
Date IEA was signed: 
2017-05-05
Signature Year: 
2017
Place IEA was signed: 
Geneva, Switzerland
Date IEA entered into force: 
2017-09-15
Treaty Type
Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc): 
E (environment) Code (agreement is environmental or not): 
Environmental
Source for E (environmental) code: 
Title
Text used for E (environmental) coding: 
2017 Amendments to Annex III of the Convention On The Prior Informed Consent Procedure For Certain Hazardous Chemicals And Pesticides In International Trade (listing of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid, perfluorooctane sulfonates, perfluorooctane sulfonamides and perfluorooctane sulfonyls)
Words used to code as Environmental: 
hazardous chemicals/pesticides
Lineage
Lineage: 
Prior Informed Consent Chemicals and Pesticides
Sequence in lineage: 
100.090
Secretariat and auspices
Legacy
Hidden fields
Version: 
2020.10
Inclusion Auto-Generated: 
MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements