The Chemical Review Committee,

Recalling paragraphs 1 and 2 of Article 7 of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade,

Recalling also its decision CRC-14/5, adopted at its fourteenth meeting, in which it recommended, in accordance with paragraph 6 of Article 5 of the Convention, that the Conference of the Parties should list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), its salts and PFOA-related compounds in Annex III to the Convention as industrial chemicals,