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Decree No. 17/2005 approving the Rotterdam Convention on The Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade to be applied within the territory of Cape Verde.

Country/Territory
Cabo Verde
Document type
Regulation
Date
2005
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Original source
Boletim Oficial, Série I, Número 52.
Subject
Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Pollution control PIC-prior informed consent Pesticides Internal trade International trade Inspection Risk assessment/management Hazardous substances
Geographical area
Africa, Atlantic Ocean Islands, North Atlantic, Sahel, Small Island Developing States, Western Africa
Entry into force notes
This Decree enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Decree approves and the Rotterdam Convention on The Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade to be applied within the territory of Cape Verde. The above mentioned Convention, consisting of 30 articles and 5 Annexes, aims at promoting the mutual responsibility and efforts of cooperation between the Parts in the international trade of specific dangerous chemical products. 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. The Convention was signed in Rotterdam (Netherlands) on 10 September 1998.

Full text
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