Taking into account that some Parties at the fourth meeting of the Conference of the Parties expressed a need for guidance on how to identify unintentionally released pentachlorobenzene,

The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee,

1. Requests the intersessional working group to continue to develop guidance on perfluorooctane sulfonate alternatives based on the revised annotated outline set out in annex V to the report of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on the work of its fifth meeting;

Noting that, in its evaluation of whether a chemical is likely, as a result of its long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects such that global action is warranted, the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee may include in an Annex E risk profile a hazard assessment for the endpoint or endpoints of concern, including a consideration of toxicological interactions involving multiple chemicals,

1. Endorses the pocket guide as amended and invites Parties and observers to consider using it;

2. Also endorses the explanatory notes to the forms for the submission of information specified in Annexes E and F contained respectively in annexes VI and VII to the report of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on the work of its fifth meeting and requests the Secretariat to use them;

Having completed the risk profile for endosulfan in accordance with paragraph 6 of Article 8 of the Convention,

1. Adopts the risk profile for endosulfan contained in addendum 2 to the report of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee on the work of its fifth meeting;

The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee,

Having examined the proposal by Norway, which is a Party to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, to list hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) (Commercial HBCD, CAS No.: 25637-99-4; -HBCD, CAS No.: 25637-99-4134237-50-6; -HBCD, CAS No.: 134237-51-7;  HBCD, CAS No: 134237-52-8) in Annex A to the Convention and having applied the screening criteria specified in Annex D to the Convention,

A. Workplan for the preparation of draft risk profiles

16 October 2009 - The Committee establishes an ad hoc working group.

Working group on endosulfan

Committee members

Mr. Désiré Ouédraogo (Burkina Faso)

1. The concluding statement of the draft risk profile for short-chained chlorinated paraffins (UNEP/POPS/POPRC.5/2) states:

Currently, concentrations of SCCPs in remote areas are lower than known concentrations of concern. Available monitoring data do not show that the environmental levels are increasing in concentrations at this time. Given demonstrated long- range transport and ability to accumulate, there is potential for increases should releases continue or increase.

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General guidance on the submission of information specified in Annex E

A. Procedure

1. In accordance with Article 8 of the Convention, a Party may submit a proposal for listing a chemical in Annexes A, B and/or C.

General guidance on the submission of information specified in Annex F

A. Procedure

1. In accordance with paragraph 7 (a) of Article 8 of the Convention, if the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee decides on the basis of a chemical’s risk profile that the chemical is likely, as a result of its long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects such that global action is warranted, consideration of the proposal for listing the chemical in Annexes A, B and/or C proceeds to the next step.