Chemistry International
Vol. 22, No. 3
May 2000
Reports
from Commissions and Division Committees
Commission
on Agrochemicals and the Environment (VI.4)
Summary of Minutes of Commission Meeting at IUPAC
General Assembly, Berlin, Germany, 810 August 1999
Twenty-one members of the Commission on Agrochemicals
and the Environment (VI.4) met for three days during the General Assembly
in Berlin. Meetings for the next three years will be in Taichung (2000)
in association with a workshop, Brisbane (2001), and Basel (2002).
The Commission discussed fourteen projects at various
stages from proposed to completed and ready for publication. It is current
practice for the whole Commission to review the recommendations from
each project before publication. It is not clear who will have this
role once the commissions disappear. The recommendations could hardly
be IUPAC recommendations if they are sent for external review because
the expertise will no longer reside in IUPAC. Extended summaries of
reports, previously published in Pure and Applied Chemistry, have
been published in Pesticide Science. The Commission web site
is running, with full copies of recent papers from Pure and Applied
Chemistry and Chemistry International available. An active
Glossary of Terms has been established.
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to Commission
Denis Hamilton
Secretary
IUPAC Commission on Agrochemicals and the Environment VI.4