Non-Party Trade Provisions in Multilateral Environmental Agreements - Key Elements for Consideration in the Context

• To better address the very significant risks and universally shared impacts of free ridership in the context of the plastics trade, negotiators should also consider the complete prohibition of the import from any non-party State of plastic precursors, materials, products, and wastes that fall within the scope of the treaty. [...] The State of export shall notify, or shall require the generator or exporter to notify, in writing, the channel of the competent authority of the State of export, the competent authority of the States concerned of any proposed transboundary movement of hazardous wastes or other wastes. [...] Within three years of the date of the entry into force of this Protocol, the Parties Amendments to the shall, following the procedures in Article 10 of the Convention, elaborate in an annex Montreal Protocol a list of products containing controlled substances. [...] English.pdf 13 Instrument Provision(s) Draft agreement under Preambular paragraph: the United Nations “Recalling that the legal status of non-parties to the Convention or any other related Convention on the Law agreements is governed by the rules of the law of treaties,” of the Sea on the conservation and sustainable use of Article 4 Relationship between this Agreement and the Convention and relev. [...] CITES, Resolutions of the Conference of the Parties, (Proceedings of the Ninth remarkable effort that reflects the universal acceptance and success of the Meeting of the Conference of the Parties, 1994), Conference Resolution 9.5, para, agreement.”; for list of ratifications see UN Treaty Collection, Montreal Protocol b, p.