ROTTERDAM AND STOCKHOLM CONVENTIONS
Secretariat of the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
United Nations Environment Programme
Office Address: International Environment House 1
11–13, chemin des Anémones, 1219 Châtelaine, Geneva, Switzerland
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Secretariat of the Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy
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NOTIFICATION
TWENTIETH MEETING OF THE CHEMICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE (CRC-20), ROME,
ITALY, 17-20 SEPTEMBER 2024
AND
TWENTIETH MEETING OF THE PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS REVIEW
COMMITTEE (POPRC-20), ROME, ITALY, 23-27 SEPTEMBER 2024
Reference is made to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for
Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade and the Stockholm Convention on
Persistent Organic Pollutants.
The twentieth meeting of the Rotterdam Convention Chemical Review Committee (CRC-20) and
the twentieth meeting of the Stockholm Convention Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee
(POPRC-20) will be held back-to-back from 17 to 20 September 2024 and from 23 to 27 September
2024, respectively, at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
(FAO), Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 00153 Rome, Italy. The meeting of the CRC-20 will be opened
at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, 17 September 2024. Pre-meetings for CRC-20 intersessional task groups will
take place on Monday, 16 September 2024, and are open to all Committee members as well as to
observers. Registered participants will receive information on the task groups and their pre-meetings in
due course. The meeting of the POPRC-20 will be opened at 9.30 a.m. on Monday, 23 September 2024.
The provisional agendas for the meetings (UNEP/FAO/RC/CRC.20/1 and
UNEP/POPS/POPRC.20/1) are enclosed. Further meeting documents and other information on the
arrangements for the meetings, including the tentative schedules of the meetings and the schedule of
pre-meetings will be available on the respective websites: http://www.pic.int/crc20 and
http://www.pops.int/poprc20
The meetings of the two committees are open to1:
(a) Parties to the respective conventions, which shall be treated as observers in accordance
with the rules of procedure of the respective Conference of the Parties for the purpose of their
participation in the Committee; and
(b) Observers, in accordance with the rules of procedure of the respective Conference of
the Parties.
To: Rotterdam Convention Official Contact Points
Stockholm Convention Official Contact Points
Bodies and agencies admitted as observers to the meetings of the Rotterdam Convention bodies
Bodies and agencies admitted as observers to the meetings of the Stockholm Convention bodies
Cc: Rotterdam Convention Designated National Authorities
Stockholm Convention National Focal Points
1 In accordance with paragraph 12 of the terms of reference of the Chemical Review Committee and rule 7 of rules
of procedure of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention, for CRC; and paragraph 13 of the
terms of reference of the POPs Review Committee and rule 7 of rules of procedure of the Conference of the
Parties to the Stockholm Convention, for POPRC.