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The Minamata Convention on Mercury establishes, under its article 15, an Implementation and Compliance Committee (ICC) as a subsidiary body of the Conference of the Parties to promote implementation of, and review compliance with, all provisions of this Convention.
The Committee shall be facilitative in nature and shall pay particular attention to the respective national capabilities and circumstances of Parties. It shall examine both individual and systemic issues of implementation and compliance and make recommendations, as appropriate, to the Conference of the Parties.
Members
The Committee shall consist of 15 members, nominated by Parties and elected by the Conference of the Parties, with due consideration to equitable geographical representation based on the five regions of the United Nations. With Eva Salplachtova (Czechia) as Acting Chair, the current members of the Committee are:
| Africa | Eliane Marina Mereng Bodo (Cameroon) Kidus Workineh Tebikew (Ethiopia) Oluwatoyin Olabanji (Nigeria) |
| Asia Pacific | Yao Wei (China) Amit Raj (India) Pragusdiniyanto Soemantri (Indonesia) |
| Eastern European States | Anahit Aleksandryan (Armenia) Eva Salplachtova (Czechia) Sonja Roglic (Serbia) |
| Latin America and the Caribbean | María del Mar Solano Trejos (Costa Rica) João Paulo de Sousa Vieira (Brazil) Tania Ramírez Muñoz (Mexico) |
| Western European and Others Group | Mark Govoni (Switzerland) Mathieu Van der Meerschen (Belgium) Rafael Zubrzycki (Germany) |
Photo of the Implementation and Compliance Committee at the seventh meeting in 2025.
