Law no. 9362 dated 24/03/2005 on "Plant Protection Service", as amended.

Decision of the Council of Ministers no. 1555, dated 12.11.2008 "On approval of rules of registration and assessment criteria of Plant Protection Products (PPP)." According to paragraph 7.2, Chapter II, PPP may be registered for trade and use in the Republic of Albania, if its active substance(s) is/are included in Appendix II, attached to this decision. In this Annex, HCH (mixed isomers) is not included.

Final decision is based primarily on the fact that HCH is a highly hazardous chemical based on the WHO classification. It poses an unacceptably high risk to human health and the environment. The pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Board is committed to registering only lowest risk pesticides for use in the country unless viable alternatives are unavailable. Viable alternatives are available for this product.

Law 22 289 Published on the Congressional Record October 02, 1980. Prohibits: importation, manufacturing, formulation, commercialisation and use of HCH (Hexachlorocichlohexane), whatever could be its commercial denomination.

Severely restricted and banned chemical substances and pesticides' import-export in Armenia is regulated by the Rotterdam Convention On Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade.

Decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia On implementation of the Republic of Armenia obligations under Rotterdam Convention signed September 10, 1998 (No. 1508-N dated October 29, 2004);

Decision of the Government of the Republic of Armenia On approval of the list of the chemicals and pesticides banned in the Republic of Armenia (No. 293-N dated March 17, 2005).

Subject to approval, registration, exemption or permit under the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Code Act 1994, noting that this pesticide has never been registered for use in Australia.

Prohibited import under Schedule 9 of Customs (Prohibited Import) Regulations, unless authorised by the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry or an authorised officer of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - contact DNA (pesticides).

Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Code Act 1994.

Customs (Prohibited Import) Regulations 1956.

Classified as a prohibited pesticide in Schedule IV of the Pesticides Control Act of 1985, Chapter 181B of the Laws of Belize, and in the Pesticides Control (replacement of Schedules) Order, 1995.

Chemical is not included in the List of active substances allowed for use in Plant Protection Products in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Official Gazette of BiH" No 11/11)

AGROCHEMICALS ACT OF 1999 - provides for registration and licensing of agrochemicals to control or regulate their importation, manufacture, distribution, use and disposal, so as to prevent pollution to the environment or harm to human, plant or animal life, and to provide for matters, incidental and connected to the foregoing.

Directive No. 329 of 2 September 1985 - Ministry of Agriculture - Prohibit the trade, use and distribution of the pesticides for agricultural use, including HCH.

Directive No. 11 of 8 January 1998 - Ministry of Health, National Surveillance - Exclude the HCH from the list of toxics substances, which can be authorized as pesticides.

Law No. 7.802 of 11 July 1989 and Decree No. 4.074 of 04 January 2002 - Pesticides and its compounds need to be registered by the Federal Authority prior to produce, export, import, trade or use.

There is no pesticide registered for any purpose.

Given its carcinogenic effects, its persistence and bioaccumulation in the environment as well as its high toxicity, HCH has been prohibited in Burundi by Ministerial Decree n 710/838 of 29/10/2001 under n 2001-01-2004.

-Law on Pesticide Fertilizer Management, 2012

-Law of Banned Pesticides, 2012

Resolution No. 2142 of 18/10/1987.

·Additional information related to Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) related to the import response for Annex III chemicals:

Published: 12/06/2009;

Final decision on import: No consent to import.

Importation, production and sale prohibited by Resolution 10255 of 1993 (Ministry of Health). Registration cancelled (ICA).

It is prohibited to import, locally produce, place on the market, sell or use this product in order to protect human health and the environment. The product has not been registered since 1998.

National Decision in force under Resolution 181/1995 of the Ministry of Public Health

The adopted decision does not include the use of the product as a reference pattern or reactive used for the development of research and analysis activities

Import of the substance is banned by the Act No. 147/1996 Code, on phytosanitary care and its implementing Decree No. 84/1997 Code, as last amended.

Circular note No. 5011/0195/AGRI/PE.EL/2012 of 16 February 2012 concerning the implementation of the Rotterdam Convention, Section V, Article 19 : the use of all chemicals listed in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention is prohibited in the DRC.

Prohibited use and marketing by Decree N. 217-91, June 4, 1991.

Legal Notice Nº 113/2006.

Regulations for Importation, Handling, Use, Storage and Disposal of Pesticides

Not registered.

It is prohibited to produce, use or place on the market HCH. The chemical, whether on its own, in preparations or as a constituent of articles, was banned by Regulation (EC) No 850/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on persistent organic pollutants and amending Directive 79/117/EEC (OJ L 229, 29.6.2004, p.5)

Decision Nº 2112/PM modifying and completing certain provisions of decisionNº 00515/PM of 17h July 2010 laying down the import and use conditions of certain hazardous chemicals and pesticides.

Severely Restricted and banned chemical substances and pesticides' import-export in Georgia is regulated by the Rotterdam Convention On The Prior Informed consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, and by the Georgian Law 1998 of Pesticides and Agrochemicals

Environmental Protection Agency Act, 1994 (Act 490).

-National policy on health and environment protection

-Decision No 2395/MAE/SGG/2001 of 6/06/2001 restricting and/or prohibiting the use of active substances in agriculture.

-National weakness in the toxicological and ecotoxicological analyses.

The product has not been authorized by the Sahelien Pesticide Committee (CSP).

Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control (Prohibited Pesticides) Order No. 22 of 2006 made under the Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Control Act 2000 (No. 13 of 2000).

Legislative or administrative measures - The use, production and import are prohibited, Based on Resolution of 7 May 1978, under "The Pesticides Control Act", Ministry of Agriculture.

1. Plant Protection Law, 1956

2. Hazardous Substances Regulations (Registration of Formulations for the Control of Pests Harmful to Man), 1994

3. Free Import Order, 2006

1. Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Law

2 Pharmaceutical Affairs Law

Law of the Republic of Kazakhstan about ratification of Rotterdam Convention from 20 March 2007 N239-III, items 38-2, 38-6 of article 17 of ecological Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan from 9 January 2007 N^o 212-II.

Not registration in the pesticide list for Libyan agriculture pesticide

It is prohibited to manufacture, place on the market, import in a private capacity, or use:

a) HCH (mixed isomers);

b) substances and preparations that contain HCH (mixed isomers) that are not merely unavoidable impurities.

(Swiss Ordinance on Risk Reduction related to the Use of certain particularly dangerous Substances, Preparations and Articles of August 2005, Annex 1.1)

Description of the national legislative or administrative measure: banned through a public announcement. Please find below the link to access the banned list (Ministry of Fisheries Marine Resources and Agriculture Website) https://www.fishagri.gov.mv/category/ guidance_and_regulations/2a8b8da0-0e95-4b53-9ef8-5734e3a4062b national gazette announcement link (in Dhivehi)http://www.gazette.gov.mv/iulaan/ view/102762.

Decree nº 01-2699/MICT-SG of 16^th October 2001 listing the products the import and export of which are prohibited.

Act nº 01-020 of 30yh May 2001 on pollution and nuisance

This pesticide has not been registered by the Sahelian Pesticides Committee, the regional body for registration, under national legislative and regulatory texts (Act 042/2000 on plant protection).

Government resolution nº 95/2007 Annex I "List of prohibited chemicals in Mongolia".

During years 1960-1999 huge amount of HCH were used in western Mongolia Khovd, Baya-Oigii, Gobi-altai and Ovorkhangai aimags to control grasshoppers in pastureland. Moreover, the HCH was used very commonly in herder households to disinfect the livestock fences and ranges

Law on chemicals (Official Gazette of Montenegro, 051/17), Article 44, Article 47, Article 48, HCH is not entered in the list of registered chemicals in Montenegro and is not on the list of active substances permitted for use in the plant protection plant for 2018. Uses of this substance are restricted under Decree on prohibited and permitted methods of use, Manufacture, and placing on the market of chemicals that present unacceptable risk to human health and the environment which fully transposed Annex XVII of REACH regulation.

Niger ratified the Rotterdam Convention which entered into force in June 2006, in January 2006

Niger ratified the Common Regulation of CILSS Member States (the Sahelian Pesticide Committee is in charge of implementing that regulation).

Order Nº 092/MAG/EL/DPV of 08-07-99, listing plant protection products prohibited in Niger.

All that has been said allows the country to conform to the regulation in force at a national, regional and international level.

Chemical is not included in the List of active substances allowed for use in Plant Protection Products in R. Macedonia (Official Gazette of RM 159/2010).

- According to Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries legislations.

- Royal Decree No. 46/95. Issuing the Law of Handling and Use of Chemicals.

Resolution 447/93.

Article No (26) from Environment Law No (30) 2002

Pesticide Law No (10) 1968

HCH has been prohibited since 1986. Not included in the official register of permitted substances for use in agriculture, including and individual farms, forestry and household. No import or sale permitted.

The chemical has never been manufactured in the Republic of Moldova. Not used.

Ministerial Order No. 396 /2002 on the banning of the use of plant protection products containing certain active substances on Romania's territory transposed partially the Directive 79/117/EEC of 21 December 1978 banning the placing on the market and use of plant protection products containing certain active substances, laid down in the Annex 1 at the Ministerial Order No.396/2002, excepting for research or laboratory analyses uses and export.

In the emergency situations which can not be solved through other means, the Interministerial Commission for the certification of plant protection products may authorize for a period of maximum 120 days the placing on the market or the use of the plant protection products containing one or several substances mentioned in the annex.

*Romanian final regulatory action bans all formulations in plant protection products

of the HCH (mixed isomers), containing less than 99% isomer gamma.

The manufacturing and the import of plant protection products containing one or several of the active substances laid down in annex and which are certificated for their use in Romania are banned, the existing stocks to be consumed within 12 months from the entrance into force of the present order. This means, starting with 18 January 2003 as it is foreseen in the Ministerial order No.396/2002.

The use of insecticides based on DDT and HCH were banned by the Ministerial Order No. 20/1985 of Agriculture and Food Industry.

The decision of the Ministry of Health in 1986.

Ministerial decision based on recommendation from the relevant technical departments.

It was registered in the past, but its registration was cancelled because it was proven risky to human health, animal and the environment.

HCH (mixed isomers) has not been registered by the Sahelian Pesticides Committee and is not listed in the National Profile of Chemicals management of Senegal.

Cannot be placed on the market according to the Law of Plant Protection Products (Official Gazette RS, No 41/09) and banned by Regulation on bans and restrictions of production, placing on the market and use of chemicals which represent unacceptable risk on human health and environment (Official Gazette RS, No 89/10)

A hazardous Substance License is required for the import of the chemical.

The chemical is controlled as a Hazardous Substance under the Environmental Protection and Management Act (EPMA) and its regulations. A license is required for the import, use and sale.

The chemical is banned from local use since 1985.

Order on prohibition, restriction or use of phytopharmaceutical products, which contain specific active ingredients (O.J. 105/01).

Government Gazette 8561 published in Government Notice R. 384 on the 25th February1983 in terms of the Fertilizers, Farm Feeds, Agricultural Remedies and Stock Remedies Act, Act 36 of 1947.

Palestinian Environmental Law No7 for the year 1999.

·Article (14) the Ministry, in coordination with the specialized agencies shall designate the environmental conditions for the import, distribution, manufacturing, use, and store of pesticides, substances, and agro-chemicals fertilizers, which may pose hazards to the environment.

·Article (15), the Ministry, in coordination with the specialized agencies shall set instructions and standards specified for agrichemicals, that are allowed to be imported, manufactured and distributed in Palestine, and shall ensure observance of it.

2. Palestinian agricultural law No. 2of 2003 give responsabilities to the Ministry of Agriculture to establish national scientific committee to register pesticides and specify technical specifications and information related to pesticides.

3. agricultural pesticides bylaw No9 for the year 2012

·Article (4) It is prohibited to register any pesticide of the following pesticides: 1. Banned pesticides in Palestine. 2. Banned pesticides in the origin country for health or environmental reasons. 3. Pesticides classified by the World Health Organization and the US Environmental Protection Agency as containing chemicals that cause cancerous tumors, congenital malformations, genetic mutations or highly toxic to humans or animals. 4. Pesticides that cause contamination of groundwater.

4. The national scientific committee of agricultural pesticides adopt national Guide list of agricultural pesticides allowed to be used in state of Palestine.

5. The National Technical Committee for the Management of Chemicals and Hazardous Wastes reviewed the chemicals have been listed in Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention and Stockholm convention and adopted import responses.

Decree negative list imports and exports, September 1, 1999, SB 34 (State Gazette)

It is prohibited to manufacture, place on the market, import in a private capacity, or use:

a) HCH (mixed isomers);

b) substances and preparations that contain HCH (mixed isomers) that are not merely unavoidable impurities.

(Ordinance on Risk Reduction related to the Use of certain particularly dangerous Substances, Preparations and Articles of August 2005, Annex 1.1).

Hazardous Waste and Chemicals Act

Pescitice Act

Legislative or administrative measures - The Pesticides and Toxic Chemicals Act, 1979 allows importation of registered pesticides only.

No permission will be granted to import into Trinidad and Tobago.

This pesticide has not been registered by the General Direction of the protection and quality control of agricultural products (DGPCQPA ) (MARHP).

These chemicals are currently not registered nor approved under the national legislative act (Pesticide Control Act No. 11 of 1993).

Ministry of People Power for Agriculture and Lands. National Institute of Integrated Agricultural Health. Administrative Order. Office of the President/ INSAI N°28, Caracas, 15 July, 2009. According to this Order, registration of products used in cattle, aquaculture and fisheries with organic chlorine active ingredient will not be allowed to import and use in the country as of 30/04/2010.

List of Banned and Severely Restricted Pesticides in Yemen.