The fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury (INC5) was held in Geneva, Switzerland from 13 to 18 January 2013.
On Saturday, 19 January 2013, in the early morning, Governments agreed to the text of a global legally binding instrument on mercury and gave birth to the “Minamata Convention on Mercury”.
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/1 - Provisional agenda
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/1/Add.1 - Annotated provisional agenda
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/2 - Scenario note for the fifth session of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/3 - Draft text for a global legally binding instrument on mercury - Chair’s draft text
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/4 - Air emission thresholds for facilities and information on releases to land and water
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/5 - Analysis of the extent to which the provisions of the draft mercury instrument reflect the content of article 20 bis on health aspects
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/6 - Draft elements of the final act to be adopted at the anticipated diplomatic conference
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/7* - Report of the intergovernmental negotiating committee to prepare a global legally binding instrument on mercury on the work of its fifth session
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/INF 1- Air emission thresholds for facilities and information on releases to land and water
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/INF 2 - Available information that might assist the committee’s work
UNEP(DTIE)/Hg/INC.5/INF 3/Rev.2 - List of Participants - reissued for technical reasons