Draft guidelines on best available techniques and guidance on best environmental practices relevant to Article 5 and Annex C of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Table of contents

1. Introduction:

1. Purpose

2. Article 5 and Annex C of the Convention

3. How to use the guidelines and guidance (to be developed)

4. Implementation flowchart with description (to be developed)

2. Consideration of alternatives

3. General guidance relevant to best environmental practices (BEP)

1. General considerations (to be developed)

2. Policy issues (to be developed)

3. Scientific and technical issues (to be developed)

4. Economic and social implications (to be developed)

5. Legal frameworks (to be developed)

4. General guidance relevant to best available techniques (BAT)

1. New sources (to be developed)

2. Existing sources (to be developed)

5. Guidance/guidelines by source category:  Annex C, Part II Source Categories

1. Waste incinerators:

1. Municipal and hazardous waste, and sewage sludge

2. Medical waste

2. Cement kilns firing hazardous waste

3. Production of pulp using elemental chlorine or chemicals generating elemental chlorine for bleaching

4. The following thermal processes in the metallurgical industry:

1. Secondary copper production

2. Sinter plants in the iron and steel industry

3. Secondary aluminium production

4. Secondary zinc production

6. Guidance/guidelines by source category:  Annex C, Part III Source Categories

1. Open burning of wastes

2. The following thermal processes in the metallurgical industry that were not mentioned in Part II of Annex C:

1. Secondary lead production

2. Primary aluminium production

3. Magnesium production

4. Secondary steel

5. Primary metals

3. Residential combustion sources

4. Fossil fuel-fired utilities and industrial boilers (to be developed)

5. Firing installations for wood and other biomass fuels

6. Chemical production process

7. Crematoria (to be developed)

8. Motor vehicles, particularly those burning leaded gasoline

9. Destruction of animal carcasses (to be developed)

10. Textile and leather dyeing and finishing

11. Shredder plants for treatment of end of life vehicles

12. Smouldering copper cables

13. Waste oil refineries

7. Annexes:  Applicable existing national and sub-national standards, guidelines or guidance for BAT (to be inserted later)

8. References:  Applicable reference materials from various sources, including assessment methods and measurement techniques (to be inserted later)