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Preparations are presently underway to resume the publication series
under a slightly different name:

EcoLomic Policy and Negotiation

EcoLomic Policy and Law

2004-2010
Vol. 1-7

Volume 5-7 Special Edition 2008-2010

The Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
on Chemicals and Wastes - Regulation,
Sound Management and Governance

Guest Editor: Professor Anne Petitpierre

Faculty of Law, University of Geneva

Start-up Funding: RUIG/GIAN

This Publication has been initiated thanks to a Conference on Trade, the Environment and Technology Transfer held at IHEID, Geneva, on 24.1.2008. Financing was provided by the Geneva International Academic Network RUIG/GIAN.

vii-ix	Anne Petitpierre	Preface
1	Urs P. Thomas	The International Management of Risk: An Overview of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions
16	Hamoudi Shubber	The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM): Development and Opportunities
45	Mirina Grosz and Pierre Portas	`Environmentally Sound Management – Towards a Coherent Framework Bridging the Basel, the Rotterdam, and the Stockholm Conventions`
70	Ulrich Hoffmann	Encouraging Environmentally Sound and Economically Viable Recycling of Used Vehicle Batteries: Lessons from the Philippines

82	Urs P. Thomas	The Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent
98	Pia M. Kohler and Melanie R. Ashton	Implementing the Stockholm Convention: An Increasingly Expensive Challenge
114	Urs P. Thomas	Chemicals and Wastes - A Model for Clustering MEAs or More Complicated than Appearances?

Annex A
158 Selected Acronyms
163 Selected Online Resources on Chemicals and Wastes
Annex B Posted with Permission
15 p.	Earth Negotiations Bulletin/IISD	Summary of the simultaneous Extraordinary COPs to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, and the 11th Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council /Global Ministerial Environment Forum: Bali, 22-26 February 2010
32 p.	CIEL	Addressing Nanomaterials as an Issue of Global Concern Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) May 2009
3 p.	UNCTAD	Main Analytical Points of the UNCTAD Trade and Environment Review 2009/2010

Volume 4 - 2007

What is EcoLomics?
Research Essay

2007
52 p.

Urs P. Thomas

International EcoLomic Policy -
Emergence and Dimensions

Volume 3 - 2006
Special Edition 2006, 115 p. WTO Law, Science and Risk Communication In Cooperation with the University of Geneva's Law Faculty Edited by Professor Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Urs P. Thomas
v	Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Urs P. Thomas	Preface
2006 (1/2) Double Issue 1	Anne Petitpierre, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Makane Moïse Mbengue, Urs P. Thomas	WTO Law, Science and Risk Communication a Synthetic Overview Swiss National Science Foundation Project 2nd Phase 2004-06
2006 (3/4) Double Issue 53	Mireia Martinez Barrabes	The Biosafety Protocol and Risk Communication: Developments at the 3rd Meeting of the Parties (Curitiba 2006)
2006 (5) 84	Makane Moïse Mbengue and Urs P. Thomas	Risk Communication, Informing the Public, and Notification Procedures in Multilateral Environmental Agreements
2006 (6) 101	Maria Julia Oliva	*Article 5.7 as an Autonomous Right in the SPS Agreement - an Overview of the Key Implications of the EC-Biotech* Case**
2006 (7/8) 116	Francesco Sindico	Climate Taxes and the WTO: Is the Multilateral Trade Regime a Further Obstacle for Efficient Domestic Climate Policies?

Volume 2 - 2005
2005 (1) 32 p.	Urs P. Thomas	Oil or Sand in the Trade and Environment Machinery? The Doha Round at the WTO's 10th Anniversary Research Essay
2005 (2) 23 p.	Robyn Eckersley	A Green Public Sphere in the WTO: The amicus curiae Interventions in the Trans-Atlantic Biotech Dispute
2005 (3) 20 p.	Gabrielle Marceau	Le principe de précaution dans la jurisprudence de l'OMC - Leçon inaugurale, Université de Genève, Faculté de droit
2005 (4) 14 p.	Denise Prévost	What Role for the Precautionary Principle in WTO Law after Japan-Apples?
2005 (5/6) 64 p.	Badr Zerhdoud	Le régime juridique international des biotechnologies: entre libre-échange et protection de l’environnement
2005 (7/8) 14 p.	Didier Nsasa Makamona	Les procédés et méthodes de production (PMP) dans le commerce international

Volume 1 - 2004
2004-1 15 p.	Makane Moïse Mbengue Inaugural Issue	Le Principe de précaution dans le commerce international - à propos de l’évolution du Principe 15 de la Déclaration de Rio
2004-2 30 p.	Urs P. Thomas	Codex Alimentarius and Environment-Related Food Safety: the Functioning of the Global Standards
2004-3 15 p.	Makane Moïse Mbengue and Urs P. Thomas	The Precautionary Principle’s Evolution in Light of the Four SPS Disputes
2004-4 208 p.	Urs P. Thomas	UNEP 1972-1992 and the Rio Conference, PhD Thesis (1992)
2004-5 19 p.	Jean-Philippe Thérien	The Politics of International Development: Towards a New Grand Compromise?
2004-6 12 p.	Gloria Lam	No Small Potatoes: Intellectual Property Rights and Genetically Modified Organisms
2004-7 - 47 p. 2004-8 - 41 p. Fr / En Aperçu / Overview SNSF Research Project I UniGE	Research Team: Anne Petitpierre, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Franz Xaver Perrez, François Pythoud, Makane Moïse Mbengue, Urs P. Thomas	Commerce, environnement et régulation internationale des biotechnologies
		Trade, the Environment, and the International Regulation of Biotechnology