Subject: Rotterdam Convention and Lead pollution
From: <[email-masked]>
To: "Aive Telling - SOM" <[email-masked]>, "Info - SOM" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2025 18:28:59 +0300

Tähelepanu! Tegemist on välisvõrgust saabunud kirjaga.
Tundmatu saatja korral palume linke ja faile mitte avada.

Dear Ms. Aive Talling,

I'm a researcher working on global lead pollution. Lead causes major harm to 
human health globally. The Rotterdam Convention website has listed this 
address as the official contact point for Estonia, is that correct? I'm 
trying to understand the process for notification of new chemicals, and 
whether Estonia can play a role in global lead paint elimination by helping 
get lead chromate onto the Annex III of the Rotterdam Convention.

Can you help stop the trade in toxic trade in lead chromate by notifying the 
Rotterdam Convention if lead chromate has been banned in Estonia?

Best, Lee

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Lee Crawfurd, PhD

Senior Research Fellow

Center for Global Development (CGD)

 <https://www.cgdev.org/blog/rich-countries-are-exporting-thousands-tons-toxic-paint-poor-countries> 
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/rich-countries-are-exporting-thousands-tons-toxic-paint-poor-countries

 <https://www.cgdev.org/blog/children-are-being-poisoned-because-bureaucratic-inertia> 
https://www.cgdev.org/blog/children-are-being-poisoned-because-bureaucratic-inertia