Legal Matters – Additional Resources

 

TitleEnglish
Canada Case Study111.04 K
Guide for the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention8.96 MB
Introductory Manual on the Stockholm Convention3.2 MB
Stockholm Convention Checklist for the Legislator155.03 K
Tanzania Case Study96.77 K
Thailand Case Study93.12 K

Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs)

Text and Annexes
(revised in 2023)

The 2023 revised text of the Convention includes the decision adopted by the tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to amend Part I of Annex A to the Convention to list perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS), its salts and PFHxS-related compounds; and the decisions adopted by the eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to amend Part I of Annex A to the Convention to list methoxychlor, Dechlorane Plus and UV-328.

The Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish language texts of the amendments adopted in 2022 and 2023 at the tenth and eleventh meetings, respectively, of the Conference of the Parties are currently being finalized and will be made available on the Convention website shortly. The 2019 revised texts are available while the updates are being finalized.