31 (2013) Nr. 5

A. TITEL

Verdrag van Minamata inzake kwik (met Bijlagen);

Kumamoto, 10 oktober 2013

Voor een overzicht van de verdragsgegevens, zie verdragsnummers 012852 en 013956 in de Verdragenbank.

B. TEKST

Bij besluit MC-4/3 van 25 maart 2022 heeft de Conferentie van de Partijen wijzigingen van Bijlage A aangenomen. De Engelse tekst1) van Bijlage A komt te luiden:

Annex A

Mercury-added products

The following products are excluded from this Annex:

  • a) Products essential for civil protection and military uses;

  • b) Products for research, calibration of instrumentation, for use as reference standard;

  • c) Where no feasible mercury-free alternative for replacement is available, switches and relays, cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps (CCFL and EEFL) for electronic displays, and measuring devices;

  • d) Products used in traditional or religious practices; and

  • e) Vaccines containing thiomersal as preservatives.

Part I: Products subject to Article 4, paragraph 1

Mercury-added products

Date after which the manufacture, import or export of the product shall not be allowed (phase-out date)

Batteries, except for button zinc silver oxide batteries with a mercury content < 2% and button zinc air batteries with a mercury content < 2%

2020

Switches and relays, except very high accuracy capacitance and loss measurement bridges and high frequency radio frequency switches and relays in monitoring and control instruments with a maximum mercury content of 20 mg per bridge, switch or relay

2020

Compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) for general lighting purposes that are ≤ 30 watts with a mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp burner

2020

Compact fluorescent lamps with an integrated ballast (CFL.i) for general lighting purposes that are ≤ 30 watts with a mercury content not exceeding 5 mg per lamp burner

2025

Linear fluorescent lamps (LFLs) for general lighting purposes:

a) Triband phosphor < 60 watts with a mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp;

b) Halophosphate phosphor ≤ 40 watts with a mercury content exceeding 10 mg per lamp

2020

High pressure mercury vapour lamps (HPMV) for general lighting purposes

2020

Mercury in cold cathode fluorescent lamps and external electrode fluorescent lamps (CCFL and EEFL) for electronic displays:

a) short length (≤ 500 mm) with mercury content exceeding 3.5 mg per lamp

b) medium length (> 500 mm and ≤ 1 500 mm) with mercury content exceeding 5 mg per lamp

c) long length (> 1 500 mm) with mercury content exceeding 13 mg per lamp

2020

Cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFL) and external electrode fluorescent lamps (EEFL) of all lengths for electronic displays, not included in the listing directly above

2025

Cosmetics (with mercury content above 1ppm), including skin lightening soaps and creams, and not including eye area cosmetics where mercury is used as a preservative and no effective and safe substitute preservatives are available1)

2020

Pesticides, biocides and topical antiseptics

2020

The following non-electronic measuring devices except non-electronic measuring

devices installed in large-scale equipment or those used for high precision measurement,

where no suitable mercury-free alternative is available:

a) barometers;

b) hygrometers;

c) manometers;

d) thermometers;

e) sphygmomanometers.

2020

Strain gauges to be used in plethysmographs;

2025

The following electrical and electronic measuring devices except those installed in large-scale equipment or those used for high precision measurement, where no suitable mercury free alternative is available:

a) Melt pressure transducers, melt pressure transmitters and melt pressure sensors

2025

Mercury vacuum pumps

2025

Tyre balancers and wheel weights

2025

Photographic film and paper

2025

Propellant for satellites and spacecraft

2025
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The intention is not to cover cosmetics, soaps or creams with trace contaminants of mercury.

Part II: Products subject to Article 4, paragraph 3

Mercury-added products

Provisions

Dental amalgam

Measures to be taken by a Party to phase down the use of dental amalgam shall take into account the Party’s domestic circumstances and relevant international guidance and shall include two or more of the measures from the following list:

(i) Setting national objectives aiming at dental caries prevention and health promotion, thereby minimizing the need for dental restoration;

(ii) Setting national objectives aiming at minimizing its use;

(iii) Promoting the use of cost-effective and clinically effective mercury-free alternatives for dental restoration;

(iv) Promoting research and development of quality mercury-free materials for dental restoration;

(v) Encouraging representative professional organizations and dental schools to educate and train dental professionals and students on the use of mercury-free dental restoration alternatives and on promoting best management practices;

(vi) Discouraging insurance policies and programmes that favour dental amalgam use over mercury-free dental restoration;

(vii) Encouraging insurance policies and programmes that favour the use of quality alternatives to dental amalgam for dental restoration;

(viii) Restricting the use of dental amalgam to its encapsulated form;

(ix) Promoting the use of best environmental practices in dental facilities to reduce releases of mercury and mercury compounds to water and land.

In addition, Parties shall:

(i) Exclude or not allow, by taking measures as appropriate, the use of mercury in bulk form by dental practitioners;

(ii) Exclude or not allow, by taking measures as appropriate, or recommend against the use of dental amalgram for the dental treatment of deciduous teeth, of patients under 15 years and of pregnant and breastfeeding women, except when considered necessary by the dental practitioner based on the needs of the patient.

C. VERTALING

In Trb. 2014, 173 dient in de vertaling de volgende correctie te worden aangebracht.

Op blz. 34, in artikel 30, vijfde lid, dient de zinsnede „voor haar eerst” te worden vervangen door „voor het eerst”.

D. PARLEMENT

De wijzigingen van 25 maart 2022 van Bijlage A bij het Verdrag behoeven ingevolge artikel 7, onderdeel f, van de Rijkswet goedkeuring en bekendmaking verdragen niet de goedkeuring van de Staten-Generaal.

G. INWERKINGTREDING

De wijzigingen van 25 maart 2022 van Bijlage A bij het Verdrag zullen ingevolge artikel 27, vierde lid, van het Verdrag op 28 september 2023 in werking treden, behalve voor de partijen die een kennisgeving hebben gedaan als bedoeld in artikel 27, derde lid, onderdeel b, van het Verdrag, dan wel een verklaring hebben afgelegd als bedoeld in artikel 30, vijfde lid van het Verdrag.

Uitgegeven de vijfentwintigste oktober 2022.

De Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, W.B. HOEKSTRA

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De Arabische, de Chinese, de Franse, de Russische en de Spaanse tekst zijn niet opgenomen.

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