In addition to Articles 10 and 11 of the Convention, concerning the PIC procedure properly so called, the Council and the interveners refer more particularly, in that connection, to the provisions concerning notification of national regulatory action intended to ban or severely restrict chemicals (Article 5), the procedure to be followed for listing chemicals in Annex III to the Convention or to remove them (Articles 7 to 9), the rules on the labelling of such products (Article 13), the exchange of information of all kinds on chemicals covered by the Convention (Article 14), the creation or strengthening of infrastructures and of nationa ...[+++]l institutions in order to apply the Convention effectively, in particular by setting up registers and databases containing information on the safety of chemicals (Article 15) and technical assistance to be given to developing countries and countries with economies in transition (Article 16).

(c) If the Community so requests, the Agency shall be prepared to examine, on premises of the Community, design information which the Community regards as being of particular sensitivity.

(iii) a special material balance area may be established at the request of the Community or of the State concerned around a process step involving commercially sensitive information;

Mr. Leadbeater: No. We felt that however " suspicious" was defined and that certainly becomes a privacy issue with regard to how intrusive this legislation should be the existing provisions in the Access to Information Act protected what was sensitive but also permitted the public to have access to accountability information.

What we face, on the one hand, is the explosion of open-source information, as it is called, all the information that is out there circulating and, at the same time, particularly, in the aftermath of September 11, increased concerns about protecting sensitive intelligence.