1. At its first session the Criteria Expert Group established by the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for an International Legally Binding Instrument for Implementing International Action on Certain Persistent Organic Pollutants requested the secretariat, in consultation with the Bureau, to draft a more fully elaborated proposal on procedures for consideration by the Criteria Expert Group at its second session, based on the text contained in annex II to the report of the Group on the work of its first session, and, in that process, to bring the text contained in annex I to the same report into line with the proposal (UNEP/POPS/INC/CEG/1/3, paragraph 30).

2. In response to this request the secretariat has prepared a draft proposal on procedures for identifying additional persistent organic pollutants as candidates for future international action (UNEP/POPS/INC/CEG/2/2).

3. To further illustrate the draft proposal on procedures for identifying persistent organic pollutants for future international action the secretariat, in consultation with the co-chairs, has prepared the flow chart annexed to the present note.