Dear SAICM National Focal Points in Asia and the Pacific,
In my message to you all on 14 Nov, I invited your comments on the prioritization of emerging policy issues to be discussed at ICCM 2. The Friends of the Secretariat had a teleconference on this issue on 27 November, and the outcome from the teleconference is attached to this e-mail.
As you see in the message from Lesley Onyon of SAICM Secretariat, we are going to have another teleconference on 12 December. I will take part in that teleconference. In order for the Secretariat to develop a meeting document for ICCM2 in a timely manner, comments on the emerging policy issues are urgently invited. Particularly I would like to invite your comments on the following:
(1) Document 3 compiles the emerging policy issues submitted by countries and stakeholders for the discussion at the informal meeting in Rome. I already invited your comments on this in my previous message, but if you still have any comments on the facts and description in this document (especially with regard to whether your submission is properly described), please send the comment to me by Monday 8th December 12h00 GMT.
(2) The teleconference summary includes the priority ranking of emerging policy issues expressed by the participants in the last teleconference. If you have any preference that you wish to express, please send your comments to me by Thursday 11th December. For your information, the preference I expressed at the teleconference representing Japan was: No.7 "heavy metals", No.11 "chemicals in products", No 13 "safety assessment of existing chemicals", and No 18 "nanomaterials".
I would also recommend you to follow the link provided in Lesley's e-mail so catch up with the discussion by the Friends of the Secretariat group.
Thank you for your attention.
Esak
Eisaku Toda
Asia-Pacific Regional Focal Point for SAICM
E-mail:saicm@iges.or.jp
Attachments:
Document3 (PDF, 57KB)
The teleconference summary (PDF, 66KB)
