PIC chemicals are subject to the Convention’s prior informed consent (PIC) procedure, an international legally-binding procedure for formally obtaining and distributing decisions of importing countries on future shipments of PIC chemicals and for ensuring compliance with these decisions by exporting countries. The result of this procedure is that Parties to the Convention will not be able to export a PIC chemical without the prior informed consent of the importing Party.
PIC chemicals include pesticides, severely hazardous pesticide formulations and industrial chemicals that are subject of a prior informed consent procedure under the Rotterdam Convention and as such listed in Annex III of the Convention.
