International Obligations

The Plant Quarantine and Pesticides Regulation Framework of Pakistan are also enforcing the International Plant Protection Convention and various Chemical Convention ratified by Pakistan. These International Obligations are: -

• World Trade Organization - Sanitary and Phyto Sanitary Standards. (https://www.wto.org)

• International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) (https://www.ippc.int)

• Regional Plant Protection Organizations.(https://www.ippc.int)

• National Plant Protection Organizations. (https://www.nappo.org)

• Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundry Movement. (https://www.basel.int)

• Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure Pesticides. (http://www.pic.int)

• Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants Pesticides. (http://chm.pops.int)

• Montreal Protocol on Substances Depleting Ozone Layer. (https://www.epa.gov)

• FAO- Desert Locust Control Committee (DLCC). (http://www.fao.org)

• FAO-South West Asia commission on Locust Control (SWAC). (http://www.fao.org)