Upcoming Meetings     

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

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     

Expert Meeting to Further Develop the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of

The Expert Meeting to Further Develop the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of was held from 13 to 15 December 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The Conference of the Parties in its decision SC-2/5 on the ongoing review and updating of the Standardized Toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxin and Furan Releases (Toolkit), requested the Secretariat to initiate an open, transparent process, in cooperation with the Chemicals Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics and in consultation with users and specialized experts in the field of emission factors and measurements related to releases of Annex C persistent organic pollutants, to develop further the Toolkit, as well as to verify emission factors, address gaps and otherwise improve the usefulness of the Toolkit.

The Expert meeting discussed the possible elements, tasks and modalities of such a process.

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