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Provisional confidentiality arrangements

Document type
Decision
Reference number
POPRC-1/1
Date
Nov 7, 2005
Source
UNEP, InforMEA
Status
Active
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Treaty
Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Sep 21, 2001)
Meeting
First meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC-1)
Website
www.informea.org
Full text
UNEP-POPS-POPRC.1-POPRC-1-1.English.DOC
UNEP-POPS-POPRC.1-POPRC-1-1.English.PDF
Abstract
Requests the Secretariat to develop draft confidentiality arrangements for consideration by the Committee at its next meeting;
Decides to apply the following provisional arrangements to confidential information until final arrangements are established by the Committee:
Any Party or any observer, when submitting information to the Committee, through the Secretariat, may identify and clearly label specific items of information submitted as confidential and requiring application of the provisional procedures for treatment of confidential information;
When receiving information labelled as confidential, the Secretariat or the Committee shall consider with the Party or the observer referred to in paragraph 2 (a) above the need for such labelling and mutually agree on the applicability of the provisional confidentiality arrangements to the information item in question;