Info and Resource Centre
For the implementation of the FAO Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides
Here you can find links to information that might be useful in supporting the implementation of the FAO Code of Conduct. You can find additional support on the "Support pages" (see navigation).
FAO Documents
FAO Code of ConductThe complete Code of Conduct is available in all 6 official languages here
Incidence Report Forms
The Secretariat for the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade provides two kind of forms you can use to document pesticide poisonings caused by severely hazardous pesticide formulations:
A: Report Form: Human Health Incidents (download)
B: Report Form: Environmental Incidents (download)
Use these forms to document pesticide poisonings.
Fill it in as exactly and as complete as you can
and sent it to FAO Code Action.
You can send it electronically. If this is not possibly just send it by mail to PAN Germany, Nernstweg 32, D-22765 Hamburg.
If you like you can also send it to the "Designated National Authority" (DNA) of your country (the address can be found here) and to the Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention at pic@pic.int.
FAO Guidelines
For goverments and advanced non-govermental activists: The FAO code of conduct is backed up with detailed guidelines. The old ones are being slowly updated, and some new ones are being written. These technical guidelines can be found here
PAN Resources
A number of common information sources have been developed by PAN to aid the network in its work and to assist and encourage others around the world to address pesticide concerns and to help understand the technical aspects of pesticides.PAN International Global Monitoring Report
2010 PAN International published "Communities in Peril: Global report on health impacts of pesticide use in agriculture". This report describes methods to do monitoring and it presents the results of a wide-ranging survey of how pesticides are used in the field by communities around the world. It shows that hazardous pesticides are rountinely used in unsafe situations and it identifies pesticides and poisonings. download
About the FAO Code of Conduct
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PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides
What are "highly hazardous pesticides"? Here you can download the 'PAN International List of Highly Hazardous Pesticides' as well as an attachment showing the different classifications of the Highly Hazardous Pesticides listed by PAN International.
Target group specific leaflets for your use:
- Pesticide Industry download English version, Russian version
- Public Interest Groups download English version, Russian version
- Goverments download English version, Russian version
- Farmers download English version, Russian version
- Food Industry download English version, Russian version
The PAN Alternatives Information Service (OISAT)
PAN Germany's Online Information Service for Non-chemical Pest Management in the Tropics (OISAT) provides easy to read web-based information appropriate for small-scale farmers in the tropics. It provides information about ways of producing key crops using affordable preventive and curative non-chemical crop and pest management practices. Visit:
http://www.OISAT.org
The PAN Pesticide Database
provided by PAN North America provides information on the toxicity and regulation of pesticides and is available at:
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Index.html
Overview of international chemicals legislation
A concise overview of international chemicals legislation which provides an operational idea of what needs to be in place on national, regional or local level in order to implement the international obligations in the chemicals conventions, including the FAO Code of Conduct.
http://www.pan-uk.org/Projects/Poverty/conGuide.html
The PAN Pesticide Library
provided by PAN UK provides information on articles and studies dealing with pesticides at:
http://www.pesticidelibrary.org
The PAN Community-based Pesticide Action Monitoring (CPAM)
is a programme developed by PAN Asia & Pacific for awareness-building and empowerment of local communities. It is based on Participatory Action Research and aims, for example, to fill the information gap on the impact of pesticides on human health and the environment. More at:
http://www.panap.net/18.0.html
For action against paraquat
Paraquat 'unacceptable health risks for users'
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For action against endosulfan
PAN Asia & Pacific Position Paper on Endosulfan (2006)
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PAN Regional Centres homepages
- PAN International
- PAN Africa
- PAN Asia & Pacific
- PAN Europe
- PAN Germany
- PAN UK
- PAN Latin America
- PAN North America
- PAN Africa: Pesticides & Alternatives (French and English); www.pan-afrique.org
- PAN Asia Pacific: Pesticide Monitor: www.panap.net
- Pesticides News (PAN UK - English): www.pan-uk.org
- Pestizid-Brief (PAN Germany - German): www.pan-germany.org
- PAN Europe newsletter (PAN Europe - English): www.pan-europe.info
- PAN Latin America: Enlace (Spanish): www.rap-al.org/v2/
- PAN North America: PAN North America Magazine and PANUPs weekly newsservice (English): www.panna.org
Access to information available in Spanish at the PAN Latin America website
downloadOther Resources
Rotterdam ConventionPAN proposed the concept of 'Prior Informed Consent' (PIC) in the FAO Code of Conduct, which is now embodied and legally enforceable in the international Rotterdam Convention. PIC is an early warning system about hazardous pesticides that allows governments to prevent imports of some of these chemicals.
More: http://www.pic.int/
Stockholm Convention
PAN's first campaign to eliminate the 'Dirty Dozen' classes of pesticides (18 chemicals) also had excellent success, resulting in widespread bans on 16 of these, and nine of them are now incorporated into the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) which aims to eliminate global production and use (with more expected).
More: http://www.pops.int/
Basel Convention
The goal is "environmentally sound management" (ESM), the aim of which is to protect human health and the environment by minimizing hazardous waste production whenever possible. ESM means addressing the issue through an "integrated life-cycle approach", which involves strong controls from the generation of hazardous waste to its storage, transport, treatment, reuse, recycling, recovery and final disposal.
More: http://www.basel.int/
ILO Convention 170
the goal is the protection of workers from the harmful effects of chemicals but it also enhances the protection of the general public and the environment.
More: http://www.ilo.org/ ilolex/ english/ convdisp1.htm
SAICM
Adopted by the International Conference on Chemical Management (ICCM) on 6 February 2006 the 'Strategic Approach to International Chemical Management (SAICM)' is a policy framework for international action on chemical hazards. SAICM was developed by a multi-stakeholder and multi-sectoral Preparatory Committee.
More: http://www.chem.unep.ch/ saicm/
IFCS
The 'Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety (IFCS)' is a unique, over-arching mechanism to develop and promote strategies and partnerships among national governments, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.
More: http://www.who.int/ ifcs/ en/
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