For this there is to be a procedure involving the prior informed consent of the importing country.

This decision would later be an important point of criticsm by activists claiming that prior informed consent had not been obtained.

The convention would also require prior informed consent from importers - a requirement of United States law.

It lays down a procedure for ensuring that shipments of radioactive waste take place only after all the states involved have given prior informed consent.

The information step was a vital part of the projects attempt to obtain a prior informed consent from the members of the participating communities.

(Export of chemicals subject to prior informed consent)

Obligations surrounding Free Prior Informed Consent will be key to this conversation.

Regulated access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge, including Prior Informed Consent of the party providing resources.

This is called the PIC procedure - Prior Informed Consent.

What can't be exported without prior informed consent is a non-functioning but no longer intact electronic device (if the component pieces are deemed hazardous).

A number of countries are taking advantage of the prior informed consent rule to refuse exports of toxic wastes from the United States.

International trade with it is restricted and regulated under the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent.

Read about prior informed consent for trade in dangerous chemicals on the HSE website - Opens in a new window.

Use of such knowledge without Prior Informed Consent of or compensation to those claiming such ownership may be termed 'biopiracy'.

In Canada, the Crown cannot extinguish aboriginal title without the explicit prior informed consent of the proper aboriginal title holders.

The Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure gives importing countries the opportunity to refuse, or apply conditions to, imports of certain dangerous chemicals.

The Convention creates legally binding obligations for the implementation of the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure.

Under the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) system, if you export certain banned or restricted chemicals, you must provide:

I see the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC) as a positive step in this policy area.

Chrysotile has been recommended for inclusion in the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent, an international treaty that restricts the global trade in hazardous materials.

The Regulation we are going to approve, on the prior informed consent procedure, is important because it gives the receiver prior information on what the sender is going to send.

The current proposal includes the prior informed consent procedure whereby only when a positive response is received from the competent authority of the country concerned would any shipment be allowed to leave a Community port.

While the project had taken many precautions to act ethically in its dealings with the indigenous groups, the project became subject to severe criticisms of the methods used to attain prior informed consent.

Concerns about the safety of monocrotophos has led to its inclusion in the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure (see page 16 for more on PIC).

The World Health Organization classifies lindane as "Moderately Hazardous," and its international trade is restricted and regulated under the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent.