The chemicals listed in Annex III include pesticides and industrial chemicals that have been banned or severely restricted for health or environmental reasons by two or more Parties and which the Conference of the Parties has decided to subject to the PIC procedure.

There are a total of 52 chemicals listed in Annex III, 35 pesticides (including 3 severely hazardous pesticide formulations), 16 industrial chemicals, and 1 chemical in both the pesticide and the industrial chemical categories.

For each chemical listed in Annex III of the Convention and subject to the PIC procedure a Decision Guidance Document (DGD) is prepared. It sets out the scope of the chemical subject to the PIC procedure and contains basic information on the chemical, inter alia its hazard classification, additional sources of information on the chemical and information on possible alternatives.

A decision guidance document is not intended as the only source of information on a chemical, nor is it updated or revised following its adoption. Additional information submitted by Parties for chemicals in Annex III can be found on this page.

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• additional notifications of final regulatory actions to ban or severely restrict these chemicals
• information on alternatives
• national risk evaluations in support of final regulatory actions that resulted in the continued use of one of more of the chemicals submitted by Parties
• evaluations from internationally peer reviewed processes including those of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)/Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR), the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
• safety data sheets

Article 10 of the Convention sets out the obligations of Parties with respect to the future import of chemicals listed in Annex III of the Convention and subject to the PIC procedure. Parties have an ongoing obligation to submit to the Secretariat, as soon as possible and in any event no later than nine months after the date of dispatch of a decision guidance document their import decision (whether a final or interim response) concerning the future import of the chemical. Where a Party changes an import decision submitted previously to the Secretariat the DNA should submit a revised import response as soon as possible. All import responses submitted by Parties are published each June and December in the PIC Circular.