Comité de Aplicación y Cumplimiento

El Convenio de Minamata sobre el Mercurio establece en su Articulo 15 un Comité de Aplicación y Cumplimiento como órgano subsidiario de la Conferencia de las Partes, para promover la aplicación y examinar el cumplimiento de todas sus disposiciones.

Los miembros actuales son:

Asia y el Pacífico Hossein Rahdar (Iran (Islamic Republic of))
Hu Yunfang (China)
Satyendra Kumar (India)
Estados de Europa Oriental Atanas Stoyanov Dishkelov (Bulgaria)
Eva Salplachtova (Czechia)
Jelena Kovačević (Montenegro)
América Latina y el Caribe Jimena Nieto Carrasco (Colombia)
Meredith Henry-Cumberbatch (Suriname)
María del Mar Solano Trejos (Costa Rica)
África Oluwatoyin Olabanji (Nigeria)
Mve Beh Jean Hervé (Gabon)
Musa Kuzumila Ngunila (United Republic of Tanzania)
Europa Occidental y otros Estados Anik Beaudoin (Canada)
Gene Smilansky (United States of America)
Helga Schrott (Austria)

ICC

The Implementation and Compliance Committee held its first meeting from 29 to 30 May 2018 in Geneva. At that meeting, members of the Committee elaborated rules of procedure, which as per article 15, paragraph 5 of the Minamata Convention, will be forwarded for consideration and approval to the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

The meeting was preceded by an information-sharing session featuring experience under implementation and compliance mechanisms of other multilateral environmental agreements, including the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and their Disposal, the UNECE Aarhus Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer.

Decisiones relevantes

ICC Rules

Rules of procedure for the Implementation and Compliance Committee(ICC) of the Minamata Convention on Mercury
Read here

As developed by the ICC at its first meeting and adopted at the second meeting of the Conference of the Parties in Geneva, 19–23 November 2018 (decision MC-2/4)