December 2012: The Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade has released the December 2012 edition of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Circular, through which parties are provided with the information required to be circulated, in line with articles 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 13 and 14.

The PIC Circular is published every six months, in June and December. This 461-page edition contains information related to the period 1 May 2012-31 October 2012. It includes details of Rotterdam Convention Parties’ new import responses to chemicals. [Publication: PIC Circular XXXVI- December 2012] [Rotterdam Convention Website]