STOCKHOLM CONVENTION
ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC
POLLUTANTS (POPs)

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• Bureau conference call report

• Conference of the Parties (COP)

  • Third Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention, Dakar, Senega, 30 April - 4 May 2007, Documents, Meeting Report 

  • Second Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention, Geneva, 1-5 May 2006, Documents, Meeting Report

  • First Meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention, Documents: Ar, Ch, En, Fr, Ru, Sp, Meeting Report

Subsidiary bodies

• Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC)

  • Third meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC), Documents

  • Second meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC), Documents, Report

  • First meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC), Documents:   Ar; Ch; En; Fr; Ru; Sp, Meeting Report

• Open-ended ad hoc working group on non-compliance

  • Second meeting of the Open-ended ad hoc working group on non-compliance, Dakar, Senegal, 25 to 27 April 2007, Documents, Meeting Report

  • First meeting of the Open-ended ad hoc working group on non-compliance, Geneva, 28-29 April 2006, Documents, Meeting Report

• Technical Working Group for the Global Monitoring Plan for POPs

  • Second Meeting of the Ad hoc Provisional Technical Working Group for the Global Monitoring Plan for POPs (GMP-TWG), Documents, Meeting Report January 2007

  • First Meeting of the Ad hoc Provisional Technical Working Group for the Global Monitoring Plan for POPs (GMP-TWG), Documents, Meeting Report, October 2006

• Expert Group on DDT

  • Second meeting of the Expert Group on DDT, Documents

  • First meeting of the Expert Group on DDT, Documents

• Expert Group on Best Available Technologies and Best Environmental Practices (EGBATBEP)

  • Second meeting of the Expert Group on Best Available Technologies and Best Environmental Practices (BAT/BEP), Documents, Designated Experts, Meeting Report

  • First meeting of the Expert Group on Best Available Technologies and Best Environmental Practices (BAT/BEP), Documents, Designated Experts, Meeting Report

• Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases

  • Expert Meeting to Further Develop the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases, 13-15 December 2006

Other background documents

• Conference of Plenipotentiaries

  • Conference of Plenipotentiaries Documents: Ar, Ch, En, Fr, Ru, Sp

• Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC)

  • INC - Seventh Session Documents: Ar, Ch, En, Fr, Ru, Sp; Meeting Report; Follow-up

  • INC-Sixth Session Documents: Ar, Ch, En, Fr, Ru, Sp;  Meeting Report

  • INC-Fifth Session Documents: Ar, Ch, En, Fr, Ru, Sp

  • INC-Fourth Session Documents: Ar, Ch, En, Fr, Ru, Sp

  • INC-Third Session Documents: En, Fr, Sp

  • INC-Second Session

  • INC-First Session

• BAT/BEP Expert Group (under the INC)

  • BAT/BEP Expert Group - Third Session Documents

  • BAT/BEP Expert Group - Second Session Documents;Meeting Report;Designated Experts; EGB-2 follow-up

  • BAT/BEP Expert Group - First Session Documents; Meeting Report; Designated Experts

• Criteria Expert Group (CEG)

  • Criteria Expert Group-Second Session 

  • Criteria Expert Group-First Session

• Liability/Redress

  • Liability / Redress Workshop Documents; Co-Chair's Report

• Resolutions adopted by the Conference of Plenipotentiaries
• National Implementation Plans 
• Workshops to support implementation of the Convention 

General   Ridding the world of POPs:  A guide to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants Ar; Ch; En; Fr; Ru; Sp  Dioxins and Furans   Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Release, Second Edition Ru - Emission Factors for the toolkit Ru Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Release, First Edition Ar, En, Fr, Ru, Sp  - Emission Factors for the toolkit Ar, En, Fr, Sp    - Questionnaires for the Toolkit EN:  sample cover sheet, Cat1, Cat2, Cat3, Cat4, Cat5, Cat6, Cat7  - Questionnaires for the Toolkit SP:  sample cover sheet, Cat1, Cat2, Cat3, Cat4, Cat5, Cat6 Draft Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Release Fr, Ru, Sp  - Emission Factors for the toolkit Fr, Ru, Sp Asia Toolkit Project on Inventories of Dioxin and Furan Releases National PCDD/PCDF Inventories  Dioxin and Furan Inventory, Paraguay 2002 Dioxin and Furan Inventory, Argentina 2001 Dioxin and Furan Inventory, Cuba 2000 Dioxin and Furan Inventory, Uruguay 2000 National Implementation Plans Interim guidance for developing a national implementation plan for the Stockholm Convention, Revised, December 2003 List of Contact People and Possible Consultants for Stockholm Convention National Implementation Plans in the Pacific Region Laboratory Services for POPs Chemicals PCBs Guidelines for the identification of PCBs and materials containing PCBs En, Fr PCB Transformers and Capacitors - From Management to Reclassification  and Disposal En, Fr, Sp PCB Inventory form:    Arabic    English    French    Spanish Pesticides Reducing and Eliminating the use of Persistent Organic Pesticides:  Guidance on alternative strategies for sustainable pest and vector management En Finding Alternatives to Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) for Termite Management En

• Register of Specific Exemptions:
  • Form: Specific exemption registration

    English

    French

    Spanish

• DDT register
  • Form: DDT registration 
• Table for listing notifications of articles in use
  • Form: Articles in use notification 

    English

    French

    Spanish

• Table for listing notifications of close-system site-limited production/use
  • Form: Closed-system site-limited intermediate notification 

    English

    French

    Spanish

• The Fourth Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)  Draft 1 Review Process
• Information provided by Shell on the production, use and stocks of aldrin, dieldrin and endrin

Other background information

• Mandates related to the Negotiation of the Stockholm Convention
• Intergovernmental Forum on Chemicals Safety (IFCS)/Adhoc Working Group on Persistent Organic Pollutants
• Washington Conference/Global Plan of Action
• An Assessment Report on DDT, Aldrin, Dieldrin, Endrin, Chlordane, Heptachlor, Hexachlorobenzene, Mirex, Toxaphene, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, Dioxins and Furans
• Workshops: UNEP-IFCS Awareness raising and UNEP POPs Management
• Master list of actions on the reduction and/or elimination of POPs
• An overview of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions and their inter-relationship

• List of Signatories and Parties to the Stockholm Convention
  (Source: United Nations Treaty Collection)
• World map showing signatories and Parties to the Stockholm Convention
  (Signatories in green and Parties in red)
• List of Governments that signed the Final Act of the Conference of the Plenipotentiaries (Note: the Final Act is the report of the Conference; this list is closed, Governments only opportunity to sign was at the Conference itself); 
• Checklist:  General steps to be taken prior to lodging instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, accession or the like with the Secretary-General of the United Nations

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