The 2nd session of the Intergovernmental Negotiation Committee (INC) to Prepare a Global Legally Binding Instrument on Mercury agreed to negotiate the new treaty based on an elements paper prepared by the Secretariat (UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.2/3), and offered initial responses to the paper element-by-element. By the end of the week-long meeting, delegates had achieved a full first reading of the elements paper, and mandated the Secretariat to prepare a new draft text, taking into account discussions at INC-2, for further negotiation at INC-3, scheduled to convene in October 2011.
Further information and documentation available at: http://www.unep.org/hazardoussubstances/Mercury/Negotiations/INC2/tabid/3468/Default.aspx
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