The Regulation on Mercury puts the provisions of the Minamata Convention that so far are not yet transposed into EU law and addresses several additional issues that are not fully regulated by the Convention.
Uredba o živem srebru vsebuje določbe Minamatske konvencije, ki doslej še niso bile prenesene v pravo Unije, in obravnava več dodatnih vprašanj, ki jih Konvencija ne ureja v celoti.