Request for comments on the social and economic guidance and additional guidance on the calculation of action plan costs in accordance with decision SC-4/9

Decision SC-4/9, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention at its forth meeting, invites Parties to make use of following two sets of guidance in development, review and implementation of the national implementation plans:

Draft guidance on socio-economic assessment
for national implementation plan development and
implementation under the Stockholm Convention
(document UNEP/POPS/COP.3/INF/8)   

Arabic

Chinese

English

French

Russian

Spanish
Draft guidance on calculation of action plan costs,
including incremental costs and action plans
for specific persistent organic pollutants
(document UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF/11)   		  

By paragraph 5 (c) of the same decision, the Conference of the Parties invited Parties to submit, by 31 May 2010, comments on how to improve the usefulness of the socio-economic guidance and additional guidance on the calculation of action plan costs based on the experience in using them.