POPs persistent organic pollutants

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee

Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its first meeting

A similar initiative is now targeting persistent organic pollutants.

First meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee.

technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutants (decision VII 13)

Technical guidelines on persistent organic pollutants (decision VII 13)

We also ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) The Stockholm Convention protects human health and the environment by restricting the production, use, and trade of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

These substances are consequently known as persistent organic pollutants or POPs.

The issue of effectiveness evaluation is addressed in Article of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. Thus, pParagraph 1 of that articleArticle of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants readsstatesstates that

Review of the role and mandate of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee.

Operational Program on Persistent Organic Pollutants Draft (OP 14), GEF Council, U.N. Doc.

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) (2001), http www.pops.int documents convtext convtext_en.pdf.

World Bank Group The World Bank Group, What are Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs)?

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

(ii) Article 12 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2001, Technical assistance

Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Operational Program on Persistent Organic Pollutants Draft (OP 14), GEF C.22 Inf.4 (2003).

(v) Article 11 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2001, Research, development and monitoring

(d) Undertake research work geared towards alleviating the effects of persistent organic pollutants on reproductive health

Paragraph 8 of Article 13 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants reads as follows

The financial mechanism for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a funding mechanism.

The GEF Initial Guidelines for Enabling Activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants states

Table 2.2.3 Projected cost of preparing for and conducting meetings of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee

Paragraph 6 of part II of Annex B of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants states

The Parties shall, within their capabilities, at the national and international levels, encourage and or undertake appropriate research, development, monitoring and cooperation pertaining to persistent organic pollutants and, where relevant, to their alternatives and to candidate persistent organic pollutants, including on their

The focus is therefore upon background levels of persistent organic pollutants at locations not influenced by local sources

(c) Note the guidance for a global monitoring programme for persistent organic pollutants contained in document UNEP POPS INF 23

At its first meeting, the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants adopted decision SC 1 7 by which it established the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee and adopted the terms of reference of the Committee contained in the annex to that decision.

Initial Guidelines for Enabling Activities for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, GEF Council, GEF C.17 4, at para.

Noting that the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants has the potential to address serious issues of concern, especially for developing countries,

(iv) Inventories of persistent organic pollutants, after improvement or updating, indicate a change in the scope of the problem to be addressed.

its assessment of its persistent organic pollutants problem, based on surveys, monitoring and inventories the obligations of the Convention applicable at that time its priorities in addressing the persistent organic pollutants problem, taking into account broader social and economic priorities its programme for achieving sustainable development and its institutional arrangements and available infrastructure

The Committee had also considered notifications regarding actions in respect of endrin, a substance subject to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.