It participates in the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemicals Safety (IFCS), a forum where governments and intergovernmental and non-governmental organisations meet.

The Commission and the Member States should actively participate in the Information Network on capacity building set up by the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety, by providing information on the projects they are supporting or financing to improve the management of chemicals in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

It also includes strengthening the integration of environmental objectives into development policy and contributing to the achievement of the objectives of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety.

We call upon all nations, industry, and non-governmental organizations to strengthen their support and participation in the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS).

7. STRESSES the importance of international cooperation and information exchange, in order to avoid duplication of efforts and facilitate the harmonisation of regulatory actions and TAKES CAREFUL NOTE of the work done or being done, namely within the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the EU-US Science and Technology Cooperation Agreement, the UNECE Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), the negotiations on the UNEP Global Persistent Organic Pollutants instrument and the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East At ...[+++]lantic (OSPAR);

the follow-up of the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS), which entails the setting up of a global inventory of research at the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, and the publication of a global state-of-the-science assessment report