The aim of the Rotterdam Convention is to promote information exchange about chemicals being traded between the Parties of the convention and also to implement the prior informed consent procedure when a Party of the Convention exports chemicals subject to the Convention to another Party of the Convention.

on a regular basis, the Convention Secretariat and, where appropriate, the bodies responsible for the secretariat functions under Agreements concluded pursuant to Article IV(3)(4) of the Convention which are relevant to migratory waterbirds, the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance, especially as Waterfowl Habitat, 1971, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, 1973, the African Convention on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, 1968, the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, 1979, and the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1992, w ...[+++]ith a view to the Meeting of the Parties cooperating with the Parties to these conventions on all matters of common interest and, in particular, in the development and implementation of the Action Plan;

(4) In addition, the following three Conventions dealing in whole or in part with extradition have been agreed upon among Member States and form part of the Union acquis: the Convention of 19 June 1990 implementing the Schengen Agreement of 14 June 1985 on the gradual abolition of checks at their common borders(4) (regarding relations between the Member States which are parties to that Convention), the Convention of 10 March 1995 o ...[+++]n simplified extradition procedure between the Member States of the European Union(5) and the Convention of 27 September 1996 relating to extradition between the Member States of the European Union(6).

77. Stresses that the strategic plan for the CBD to be adopted in the 6 Conference of the Parties to the CBD should address how the CoP will provide precise guidance to the parties regarding the implementation of all articles of the CBD, how this guidance should be incorporated in the National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans and how the implementation of these Strategies and Action Plans will be assessed;

5. Calls on all States Parties to the BTWC Convention to intensify their work with a view to completion of a legally binding Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention during the Fifth Review Conference of States Parties and urges all States which are not already parties to accede to the Convention without further delay;

(7) The United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context of 25 February 1991, which applies to both Member States and other States, encourages the parties to the Convention to apply its principles to plans and programmes as well; at the second meeting of the Parties to the Convention in Sofia on 26 and 27 February 2001, it was decided to prepare a legally binding protocol on strategic environmental assessment which would supplement the existing provisions on enviro ...[+++]nmental impact assessment in a transboundary context, with a view to its possible adoption on the occasion of the 5th Ministerial Conference "Environment for Europe" at an extraordinary meeting of the Parties to the Convention, scheduled for May 2003 in Kiev, Ukraine.