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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
Source
UNEP, 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;