Protection Against Products Harmful to Health and the Environment

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 12Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1983.

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3 versions · 1983–1985

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/39/229

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What subjects does this mandate have?

6 topics

Consumer Protection Exports Harmful Products International Sale of Goods Pesticides Pharmaceuticals

What does this mandate say?

17 operative paragraphs

Condemns Israel for its exploitation of the national resources of the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories;

Emphasizes the right of the Palestinian and other Arab peoples whose territories are under Israeli occupation to full and effective permanent sovereignty and control over their natural and all other resources, wealth and economic activities;

Reaffirms that all measures undertaken by Israel to exploit the human, natural and all other resources, wealth and economic activities in the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories are illegal and calls upon Israel to desist immediately from such measures;

Further reaffirms the right of the Palestinian and other Arab peoples subjected to Israeli aggression and occupation to the restitution of and full compensation for the exploitation, depletion and loss of and damages to their natural, human and all other resources, wealth and economic activities, and calls upon Israel to meet their just claims;

Calls upon all States to support the Palestinian and 5. other Arab peoples in the exercise of their above-mentioned rights;

Calls upon all States, international organizations, specialized agencies, business corporations and all other institutions not to recognize, or co-operate with or assist in any manner in, any measures undertaken by Israel to exploit the national resources of the occupied Palestinian and other Arab territories or to effect any changes in the demographic composition, the character and form of use of their natural resources or the institutional structure of those territories;

Requests the Secretary-General to prepare and submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-eighth session, through the Economic and Social Council, the two reports requested in Assembly resolution 36/173.

Takes note of decision 80/44 of 27 June 1980 of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Pro-

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, The Hague Conventions and Declarations of 1899 and 1907 (New York, Oxford University Press), 1915, p. 100.

'United Nations, Treaty Series. vol. 75, No. 973, p. 287. gramme on agency support costs6 and of section I, paragraph 3, of decision 82/20 of 18 June 1982, 7 in which the Council endorsed the guidelines for the approval of new and continuing intercountry projects that, inter alia, called for the discontinuation by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities of infrastructural support to its project-executing agencies, including the regional commissions;8 2.

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive secretaries of the regional commissions, to consider the inclusion in the draft programme budget for the biennium 1984-1985 of proposals on modalities for the continuation of activities in the field of population at the regional level.

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Protection against products harmful to health and the environment

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Agrees that products that have been banned from domestic consumption and/or sale because they have been judged to endanger health and the environment should be sold abroad by companies, corporations or individuals only when a request for such products is received from an importing country or when the consumption of such products is officially permitted in the importing country;

Agrees that all countries that have severely restricted or have not approved the domestic consumption and/or sale of specific products, in particular pharmaceuticals and pesticides, should make available full information on these products with a view to safeguarding the health and environment of the importing country, including clear labelling in a language acceptable to the importing country;

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to ensure the provision of the necessary information and assistance by the United Nations system in order to strengthen the national capacities of developing countries to protect themselves from the consumption and/or sale of banned, withdrawn, severely restricted or, in the case of pharmaceuticals, non-approved products;

Requests the Secretary-General, based upon the work already being done within the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the International Labour Organisation, the United Nations Environment Programme, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations and other relevant intergovernmental organizations, to the maximum extent possible within existing resources, to prepare and regularly update a consolidated list of products whose consumption and/or sale have been banned, withdrawn, severely restricted or, in the case of pharmaceuticals, not approved by Governments, and to make this list available as early as possible and, in any case, not later than December 1983;

Agrees that the consolidated list referred to in paragraph 4 above should be easy to read and understand and should contain both generic/chemical and brand names in alphabetical order, as well as the names of all manufacturers and a short reference to the grounds and the decisions taken by Governments that have led to the banning, withdrawal or severe restriction of such products;

Decides, on the basis of the above-agreed criteria, to keep under review the format of the consolidated list with a view to its possible improvement;

Requests Governments and the relevant organs, organizations and bodies of the United Nations system to provide all the information and assistance necessary for the prompt and effective fulfilment of the task entrusted to the Secretary· General.

37/138. Financing of the Multinational Programming and Operational Centres of the Economic Commission for Africa on an established basis

Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the Multinational Programming and Operational Centres of the Economic Commission for Africa on an established basis;

Welcomes the decision adopted by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme at its twenty-ninth session, in which the Council requested the Administrator of the Programme to continue to provide financial support to the five Multinational Programming and Operational Centres during the whole of the third programming cycle, 1982-1986; 15

10 See Official Recordl· of the Economic and Social Council, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 7, vol. I (E/5941 ). part III.

11 NS-11/14, annex I.

12 E/CN.14/111/Rev.8.

11 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1982, Supplement No. JI (E/1982/21), chap. V.

14 E/1982/70 and Corr. I.

"See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1982. Supplement No. 6 (E/1982/16/Rev I), annex I, decision 82/4 A. sect. IV.

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