Council Decision (EU) 2025/2258 of 31 October 2025 on the position to be taken on behalf of the European Union at the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury as regards the adoption of decisions amending Annexes A and B to that Convention on mercury-added products and manufacturing processes in which mercury or mercury compounds are used

The position to be taken on the European Union’s behalf at the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Minamata Convention on Mercury (the ‘Convention’) shall be to support the adoption of: (a) decisions amending Annex A to the Convention consistent with the Union acquis on dental amalgam; and (b) decisions amending Annex B to the Convention to ensure that mercury processes that are already prohibited under Regulation (EU) 2017/852 are phased out by specified dates or made subject to stricter requirements regulating mercury use.

Refinement of the position referred to in Article 1 may be agreed to, in light of developments at the sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention, by representatives of the Union, in consultation with Member States during on-the-spot coordination meetings, without further decision of the Council.

This Decision shall enter into force on the date of its adoption.