concerning the arrangements to perform jointly the Secretariat Functions

Overview of free, prior and informed consent

This is done through appendix IV of the PIC Circular.

Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

(a) Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

Legal commentary on the concept of free, prior and informed consent

Relevance of institutional policy frameworks to free, prior and informed consent

Elements of a common understanding of free, prior and informed consent

Of the four chemicals concerned, two are currently not subject to the prior informed consent procedure.

Case studies should be undertaken to analyse current practices of principles of free, prior and informed consent.

Such summaries and synopses are communicated to Parties and participating States through the PIC Circular.

Of the 201 chemicals concerned, 160 are currently not subject to the prior informed consent procedure.

To begin a new proposal submission procedure, newly received notifications from each of two PIC regions are required.

The PIC Circular is published every six months, in June and December.

Special issues and free, prior and informed consent in relation to special areas of work

Participants shared their views on the principle and the practices of free, prior and informed consent.

Lessons and challenges in the application of FPIC towards a common inter agency operational understanding of FPIC

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The implementation of the principle of free, prior and informed consent presented a number of practical problems.

Examples of the application of free, prior and informed consent at the national and international levels

The information was included with the PIC Circular, which was sent to all designated national authorities.

Those import decisions will be reflected in the PIC Circular of December 2005.

Summaries of the proposals verified as complete are circulated in appendix II of the PIC Circular.

The challenge is to find the right mix of pre approval, limited conditionality, and speed.

Main areas where FPIC is relevant

The Working Group expressed appreciation to Ms. Motoc and the Tebtebba Foundation that had collaborated in the expanded working paper on the principle of free, prior and informed consent.

Table 2. Overview of the number of importing country responses for all prior informed consent chemicals (as at 30 April 2005)

Amongst other things this grounds the practice of informed consent that should be respected by the nurse.

Mr. Bíró stressed the organic relationship between self determination and the principle of free, prior and informed consent.

It provided a basis for the development of guidelines, methodologies and procedures for the principle of free, informed and prior consent to be implemented.

In electing members, due consideration shall be given to the principle of equitable geographical representation of the regional groups of the United Nations the PIC regions .

Examples of the application of the principle of FPIC at the national and international levels (legislation, treaty making, treaty supervision, project planning, application and evaluation)

I Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade

A large number of statements were made on the study, referring to the substantive and procedural elements of free, prior and informed consent.

How should the lack of awareness and capacity among those involved in free, prior and informed consent processes be addressed?

Free, prior and informed consent could be strengthened by establishing procedures to challenge and to independently review these processes.

For one chemical, three notifications from different prior informed consent regions were found to fulfill all the criteria of Annex II.

It was noted that free, prior and informed consent was viewed as a principle based on the human rights approach to development.

Determination that the elements of free, prior and informed consent have not been respected may lead to the revocation of consent given.

Report of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade on the work of its second meeting

The expected number of responses is calculated for all countries participating in the prior informed consent procedure at the time indicated for chemicals concerned in each column.

It was stressed that free, prior and informed consent was particularly relevant for the prevention of conflict and for peacebuilding.

Also, any response listed in the PIC Circular that does not address importation is considered to be an interim response that does not contain an interim decision.

(e) Parties should consider the need for and practical implementation of athe prior informed consent procedure for ODS imports similar to the one used in the Basel Convention

A number of questions were raised in the presentations on how the principle of free, prior and informed consent could be implemented, including the following