Upcoming Meetings     

October 2012
Eighth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC8)
Geneva, Switzerland, 15 - 19 October 2012

Upcoming webinars     

Tentative Meetings     

Regional awareness raising workshop on enhancing cooperation and coordination for the implementation of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions for Arabic-speaking countries
Dates: Second half of 2011(to be confirmed)
Venues: Cairo, Egypt 

Training workshop on strengthening legal and regulatory frameworks to implement the Stockholm Convention
Dates: 2011(to be confirmed)
Venue: To be confirmed 

Joint workshops to support effective participation in the Rotterdam Convention Chemicals Review Committee and the Stockholm Convention POPs Review Committee 
Dates: 2011
Venues: To be confirmed

Regional capacity-building workshop on new POPs and the process for reviewing and updating NIPs in the Pacific
Date: 2011
Venue: To be confirmed

All meetings     

Seventh meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC)

The Seventh meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) was held from 10 to 14 October 2011 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Seventh meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) was held at the Varembé Conference Centre.

The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) adopted twelve decisions at its seventh meeting, including one recommending that the chemical hexabromocyclododecane be listed under the Convention. The Committee also decided that chlorinated naphthalenes and hexachlorobutadiene, two chemicals proposed for listing under the convention, met the screening criteria of Annex D of the convention and to prepare draft risk profiles for these chemicals. The Committee agreed to continue its evaluation of a third chemical, pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters. The Committee also concurred to work on a number of other issues during the intersessional period, including the assessment of alternatives to endosulfan, DDT and use of PFOS in open applications, toxic interactions, SCCP, and climate change and POPs.

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