Ad
hoc Expert Group on POPs
Following
adoption of the 1998 Protocol on POPs, Parties to
the Convention felt that some further assessment work
on POPs would be appropriate prior to entry into force
of the Protocol. To this end the Executive Body, at
its seventeenth session, decided to establish an Expert
Group on POPs under the leadership of the Netherlands.
The outputs of the Expert Group 2000-2003 are summarized
below. The Expert Group completed its work in 2003.
Task Force on POPs established
December 2003
Fourth
meeting of the Expert Group
Oslo
on 17-19 March 2003
Report
to the Working Group on Strategies and Review (including
results of the fourth meeting):
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English |
French |
Russian |
EB.AIR/WG.5/2003/3
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Dossiers
of information on substances not included in the Protocol,
provided by national experts:
To read
PDF files, the Acrobat Reader is required:
| Dicofol
(Netherlands) |
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Endosulfan
(Germany)
(updated version 2004) |
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| Short-chain
Chlorinated Parafins (Canada) |
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| Pentachlorophenol
(Poland) |
Not
completed |
Addendum
to the dossier on Pentabromodiphenyl ether (prepared
by Finland/Sweden):
Information
exchange among experts (transmitted as received):
Report
to the Working Group on Strategies and Review (including
results of the third meeting):
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English |
French |
Russian |
EB.AIR/WG.5/2002/2
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Compendium
of substance-related information
Other
dossiers in progress
| Dicofol
(Netherlands) |
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| Short-chain
Chlorinated Parafins (Canada) |
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| Pentachlorophenol
(Poland) |
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Other
material on POPs prepapred in the framework of
the Convention
| Report
of the Task Force on Health to the Working
Group on Effects: |
Click
to download |
| Summary
report of the second meeting: |
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Documents
used for the selection of substances for the POPs
Protocol initially could be useful for Parties that
were preparing proposals for additional substances. The documents reflect the state
of knowledge of 1995/96 and may also be a useful historical
record to make the selection of POPs transparent.
They provide a database on individual substances
and much of the information remains relevant. The documents also show the gaps in knowledge
that existed in 1995/96. The documents can be found at:
http://www.aeat.co.uk/netcen/airqual/reports/unece/pops/pops.html
Report
of the first meeting
6-8
November 2000, The Hague, Netherlands