Note by the Secretariat 1. At the seventh meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, held from 10 to 14 October 2011, and at the eighth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee of the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, held from 19 to 23 March 2012, Mr. Reiner Arndt, Chair of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, and Ms. Hala Sultan Saif al-Easa, Chair of the Chemical Review Committee, reported that they were preparing a document on possible cooperation between the two committees for consideration by the parties to the two conventions. The two chairs presented a draft outline of the document and invited the committees to submit written feedback on it, on the basis of which a revised draft would be prepared. As agreed at the eighth meeting of the Chemical Review Committee, the draft outline was shared with the Open-ended Working Group of the Basel Convention at its eighth meeting, which was held from 25 to 28 September 2012.