The Convention requires that governments provide Designated National Authorities (DNAs) with sufficient resources to perform their tasks effectively. What does this mean?
A. In order to ensure the implementation of the Convention, DNAs need to have powers to undertake or to have access to those areas of government responsible for the following: – regulatory decisions for the use of pesticides and industry chemicals and to notify the Secretariat of these decisions; – controls on the import and export of chemicals; – a mechanism to communicate the import responses contained in the PIC Circular to potential exporters; – access to information on human and environmental poisoning incidents involving pesticides; – making decisions on the future import of chemicals listed in Annex III of the Convention and to report these decisions to the Secretariat on behalf of the government; – to have serve as contact point for matters related to the Rotterdam Convention with the Secretariat, other DNAs and national stakeholders. Q2. During the processing of an application by industry for the use of a chemical in our country, concerns about impacts on health (or the enviro
