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All Parties have to notify the Secretariat of the Convention when they take final
regulatory actions to ban or severely restrict the use of a chemical for health or
environmental reasons. The Secretariat keeps a list of chemicals that are banned
or severely restricted by Parties. The process to consider the addition of
a chemical to the PIC procedure is initiated when the Secretariat receives
notification for the chemical by two Parties, each from a different region of the
Convention (the Convention divides the Parties into seven regions).
Once a chemical has been nominated for consideration for inclusion in the PIC
procedure, the notifications are submitted to the Chemical Review Committee,
which prepares a Decision Guidance Document if the notification meet the
criteria of the Convention.
The Chemical Review Committee makes recommendations the COP whether or
not to add the substance to the PIC procedure and to approve the Decision
Guidance Document. It is the Parties that make the final decision to add a
chemical to the list of substances subject to the PIC procedure, on a consensus
basis. The Convention requires that the entire process to consider the addition of
chemicals to the PIC procedure be conducted in an open and transparent
manner.
4.0 NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION STATUS OF THE CONVENTION
4.1 Participation in the Convention: Tanzania signed the Rotterdam
Convention in 1998, and ratified it in 2002. The national focal point is the Vice
President’s Office, Department of Environment. The country has appointed two
Designated Authorities for implementation of the convention: The Chief
Government Chemist (for Industrial and Consumer Chemicals) and Registrar of
Pesticides (for pesticides) as directed by Article 4 of the convention.
The two DNAs have been trained in Nairobi Kenya June 2000 and Namibia in
February 2003. The Government has also been represented in various
international meetings including the most recent International Seminar held in
Rome – Italy, 6 th – 8 th April 2005.
The roles of DNAs include dealing with administrative issues related to the
convention such as information exchange, receiving document from the
secretariat, workshop proceedings, communicating with industries, Government
ministries and other relevant authorities. The provisions of implementation of the
convention have been also incorporated in some national laws such as the Plant
Protection Act (1997), the Industrial and Consumer Chemicals (Management &
Control) Act (2003) and the Environmental Management Act (2004).
4.2 Status of the chemicals under the convention (Annex III) – Refer
Table 1.
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