Membership

A fifteen-member Compliance Committee was established by the adoption of the Compliance procedures under Article 17 of the Stockholm Convention. Members shall be experts nominated by Parties and elected by the Conference of the Parties on the basis of equitable geographical representation of the five regional groups of the United Nations, with due consideration to gender balance. Members shall have expertise and specific qualifications in the subject matter covered by the Convention. They shall act objectively and in the best interests of the Convention.

The Committee shall elect its own Chair. A Vice-chair and a rapporteur shall be elected, on a rotating basis, by the Committee in accordance with rule 30 of the rules of procedure of the Conference of the Parties.

Members and officers of the Committee:


At its twelfth meeting, the Conference of the Parties elected the first cohort of members of the Committee, bearing in mind that no decision was taken on the election of members from the Eastern Europe region:

Membership of the Committee since 2025

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Helga Schrott is a public servant in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Climate and Environmental Protection, Regions and Water Management and a legal expert for national, European and international law on chemicals.

She was involved in Twinning, an European Union instrument for institutional cooperation between public administrations of EU Member States and partner countries which empowers civil servants around the world to implement more effective and efficient public policies. She participates in negotiations on multilateral environmental agreements including the Stockholm Convention on POPs and other frameworks like the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC). She also is the national focal Point for the Rotterdam Convention and works for the Austrian DNA, and national focal Point for the Minamata Convention on Mercury and national focal point for the GFC. Helga Schrott leads the national coordination platform on international and European issues relating to chemicals and waste policy of the BRS Conventions, Minamata Convention and the GFC.

She served as a member of the implementation and compliance committee of the Minamata Convention on Mercury until 2025 and has now started her work in the compliance committee of the Stockholm Convention on POPs.





Francisco Nelson Linhares de Almeida Júnior is a Brazilian career diplomat and Counsellor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil. He currently serves at the Secretariat for Climate, Energy and Environment (SECLIMA), where he advises on matters related to international environmental policy, multilateral negotiations and global environmental governance. He is also a member of the Stockholm Convention Compliance and the GEF Scientific and Technical Assessment Panel Ad-hoc Working Group.

Since joining the Brazilian Foreign Service in 2009, Mr. Linhares has held a range of positions in Brasília and abroad. He served at the Brazilian Embassies in London and Warsaw, working on economic, commercial, science and technology, climate, energy and institutional affairs. In Brasília, he worked in areas related to trade promotion, international cooperation, Brazilian communities abroad, and environmental policy.

Over the past several years, his work has focused primarily on multilateral environmental diplomacy, including chemicals and waste management, sustainable consumption and production, biodiversity, pollution, and climate-related issues. He has represented Brazil and frequently served as head of delegation in negotiations under the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), and the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee process on plastic pollution.

Mr. Linhares holds a B.A. in Social Communication from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, attended the Law School of the Federal University of Piauí and completed diplomatic training at the Rio Branco Institute. He has also undertaken executive and professional development programmes at the London School of Economics, Cornell University and the Brazilian National School of Public Administration (ENAP).