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1.Takes note of the information provided in the reports of the Chemical Review Committee on the work of its ninth and tenth meetings;1
2.Appoints the 17 designated experts to serve as members of the Committee;2
3.Adopts the list of 14 parties to nominate Committee members for terms of office commencing on 1 May 2016 set out in the annex to the present decision;
5.Welcomes the guidance to assist parties to the Convention and the Chemical Review Committee in their work when a chemical under consideration is a persistent organic pollutant listed under the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants;3
6.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; 4
7.Welcomes the handbook of working procedures and policy guidance for the Chemical Review Committee;5
8.Takes note of the holding of an orientation workshop for new members and requests the Secretariat to continue, subject to the availability of resources, to organize further such workshops and to report on the results of that activity to the Conference of the Parties at its eighth meeting;