Industrial Chemicals Act 2019

This section relates to Australia’s obligations under subparagraphs 1(a) and (c) of Article 14 of the Rotterdam Convention.

The Executive Director must:

give Australia’s designated national authority such information of the kind mentioned in subparagraph 1(a) of Article 14 of the Rotterdam Convention as the Executive Director considers appropriate about a notified industrial chemical that was obtained during the 12 months ending on 1 February each year; and

do so as soon as practicable after that day.

If information is given under subsection (2), Australia’s designated national authority must:

give the Secretariat the information; and

do so as soon as practicable after receiving the information.

Australia’s designated national authority may also give a country that is a Party to the Rotterdam Convention, or the appropriate authority of such a country, all or any of that information.