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     

Fifth Toolkit Expert Meeting

The Fifth Toolkit Expert Meeting was held from 1 to 3 December 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Fifth Toolkit Expert Meeting to Further Develop the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases was held from 1 to 3 December 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was attended by technical experts from the Toolkit Expert Roster.

The general guidance on the Toolkit was revised to include aspects related to the updating and revision of inventories and data quality codes. Dioxin emission factors have been revised and/or newly developed for the following source groups: 2 – Metal industry, 3 - Power generation and heating, 4- Mineral products, and 6 – Open burning processes. Emission factors for unintentionally produced POPs other than dioxin and furans were equally derived for certain source categories. The revised information will complement the 2005 edition of the Toolkit and provide up-to-date guidance to Parties in developing inventories of unintentionally produced POPs. 

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