Nigeria - 2016 - Agriculture and Rural Development

National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breed (Registration etc.) (Amendment) Act, 2016

Ministry of Agriculture ,Ministry of Rural Development, Nigeria

An Act to enable effect to be given in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade. The objective of this convention is to promote shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm and to contribute to their environmentally sound use, by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, by providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and by disseminating these decisions to Parties.

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National Assembly

Office of the President

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National Crop Varieties and Livestock Breed (Registration etc.) (Amendment) Act, 2016 Current Version

January 2022

An Act to enable effect to be given in the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides in international trade. The objective of this convention is to promote shared responsibility and cooperative efforts among parties in the international trade of certain hazardous chemicals in order to protect human health and the environment from potential harm and to contribute to their environmentally sound use, by facilitating information exchange about their characteristics, by providing for a national decision-making process on their import and export and by disseminating these decisions to Parties.

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