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Informal Prior-Informed Consent (iPIC) – Supporting Compliance through Prevention of Illegal and Unwanted Trade in ODS
VATIS UPDATE Part
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This short booklet briefly describes how the iPIC system works and its advantages, it provides some information on results and successes from iPIC in 2014 and encourages countries which are not yet members to join and to begin to reap the benefits of this initiative. This initiative was developed in order to better manage trade in ozone depleting substances (ODS) that are controlled under the Protocol.
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