Annex II

Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

Llevels of POPs in the environment and people Tthe need for exemptions for on going use of POPs under the Convention and Llevels of POPs in the environment.

A similar initiative is now targeting persistent organic pollutants.

First meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee.

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

We also ratified the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

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

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

POPs persistent organic pollutants

POPs 250 million

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).

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

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

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).

(e) Subregions that contain large quantities of POPs

A Party's initial plan will reflect the initial obligations of the Convention and will address the twelve persistent organic pollutants listed in Annexes A, B and C of the Convention.

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

Operational issues roster of experts

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

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

Parties are obliged to develop strategies to identify, manage, and dispose of POPs wastes.

on Persistent Organic Pollutants at its first meeting

These services will assist the private and public sector institutions to remove POPs and persistent toxic substances from manufacturing processes.

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

They accumulate in the tissue of living organisms, which absorb POPs through food, water, and air.

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

Paragraph 4 of Article 12 of the Stockholm Convention states

In addition, UNIDO is actively engaged in supporting the implementation of the Stockholm Convention for POPs.

It may wish to start with such matters as the terms of reference for the POPs review committee and guidance to the financial mechanism.

The Basel Convention has identified ten processes that might be permitted for the purpose of destruction and irreversible transformation of the persistent organic pollutant content in wastes when applied in such a way as to ensure that the remaining wastes and releases do not exhibit the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants.

Table 2.2.8 Projected cost of operating the clearing house mechanism for information on POPs

Analysis of the implications for the Stockholm Convention of the guidelines on persistent organic pollutant wastes adopted under the Basel Convention

The effects of POPs exposure include birth defects, cancers, and dysfunctional immune and reproductive systems.

POPs are also a threat to biodiversity, and even have the potential to cause disruption at the ecosystem level.

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

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

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

The development of national implementation plans (NIPs) on POPs, provide the opportunity for Parties to prioritize capacity needs.

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

Since then, POPs and land degradation (desertification) have been added as GEF focal areas.

The GEF may then be able to arrange co financing for the non POPs part of the project.

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

These assessments would be the main means by which the Conference of the Parties would be informed of the regional trends and transport of persistent organic pollutants in the environment.

In developing the global persistent organic pollutants monitoring programme, a number of general principles have been applied and the main ones are listed below