× Information on this section of ECOLEX comes from the InforMEA Portal which compiled information from MEA Secretariats with the support of the European Union. The accuracy of the information displayed is the responsibility of the originating data source. In case of discrepancy the information as displayed on the respective MEA website prevails. Updating of the Basel Convention technical guidelines on the environmentally sound management of persistent organic pollutants Document type Decision Reference number POPRC-6/3 Date Oct 11, 2010 SourceUNEP, InforMEA Status Active Subject Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Management/conservation Ecofriendly products/ecofriendly processes Treaty Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Sep 21, 2001) Meeting Sixth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC-6) Website www.informea.org Full text UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Spanish.doc UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Arabic.pdf UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Russian.doc UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.French.pdf UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Chinese.doc UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.French.doc UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Spanish.pdf UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Chinese.pdf UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Russian.pdf UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.Arabic.doc UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.English.pdf UNEP-POPS-POPRC.6-POPRC-6-3.English.doc Abstract 1. Recommends that, with regard to the chemicals newly listed in Annexes A, B and C to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants by amendments to the Convention, the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention invite the appropriate bodies of the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal: (a) To establish the levels of destruction and irreversible transformation of these chemicals necessary to ensure that the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants as specified in paragraph 1 of Annex D to the Stockholm Convention are not exhibited;