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2.Appoints the 17 designated experts3 to serve as members of the Committee;
3.Adopts the list of 14 parties to be invited to nominate Committee members forterms of office commencing on 5 May 2016 set out in the annex to the present decision;
5.Welcomes the guidance to assist parties to the Rotterdam Convention and the Chemical Review Committee on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade in their work when a chemical under consideration is a persistent organic pollutant listed under the Stockholm Convention;4
6.Also welcomes the guidance on how to assess the possible impact of climate change on the work of the Committee5 as well as the approach to the consideration of climate change interactions with chemicals proposed for listing in Annexes A, B and/or C to the Convention and the recommendations developed by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on the basis of the guidance;6
7.Takes note of the information provided by the Secretariat on the experience in the organization of the back-to-back meetings and the joint meeting of the Chemical Review Committee and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee;7
8.Requests the Secretariat to continue, subject to the availability of resources, to undertake activities to support parties and others to participate effectively in the work of the Committee as listed in decision POPRC-10/7 and to report on the results of those activities to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting.
9.Encourages parties and observers to submit information specified in Annex E and Annex F in response to requests for input from the Committee, recognizing that increased participation will contribute to the comprehensiveness of reports, and to support the Committee in the preparation of its recommendations.