Author: Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 5.
Source: United Nations Environment Programme
Year: 2013
Comment:
This is the landmark draft treaty text of UNEP's mercury treaty, which eventually was revised and became the Minamata Convention on Mercury, a legally-binding, global treaty to phase down industrial releases of mercury. In this draft, dental amalgam is included in Annex C, page 37.
Abstract / Excerpt:
“At its fourth session, held in Punta del Este, Uruguay, from 27 June to 2 July 2012, the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury requested the Chair of the committee to prepare, for consideration by the Committee at its fifth session, a Chair’s draft of the global legally binding instrument on mercury called for by the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme in its decision 25/5. In his draft the Chair would propose compromise text in an effort to bridge the differences between some of the positions espoused by the parties during the fourth session. He would also seek to harmonize style and terminology and achieve editorial consistency in the draft instrument.”
Citation:
United Nations Environment Programme. Draft treaty text from Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee 5. Geneva, Switzerland: UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/3; January 13-19, 2013.