Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC)

STOCKHOLM CONVENTION
ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC
POLLUTANTS (POPs)

Information requests for Parties and observers

Invitation for submission of comments on draft documents of Risk Management Evaluation and Risk Profile (deadline: 18 May 2008)

Inviation for submission of comments
For: • Commercial octabromodiphenyl ether • Pentachlorobenzene • Alpha hexachlorocyclohexane • Beta hexachlorocyclohexane • Short-chained chlorinated paraffins In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 8, the POPRC has prepared the draft documents of Risk Management Evaluation and revised Risk Profile. Parties and observers are invited to review the drafts and submit your comments to the Committee by 18 May, 2008. The comments should be submitted most preferred by electronic files to ssc@pops.int, or else by FAX or postal mail to the indicated address. The Risk Management Evaluations will be used together with the Risk Profiles by the Committee as the basis for its recommendation to the COP on whether the chemical should be considered for listing in Annex A, B, and/or C.
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Invitation letter
Draft RME for Commercial Octabromodiphenyl ether
Draft RME for Pentachlorobenzene
Draft RME for Alpha hexachlorocyclohexane
Draft RME for Beta hexachlorocyclohexane
Draft Risk Profile for short-chained chlorinated paraffins

Information for risk profile (deadline: 5 February 2008)

Annex E information request
For: Short-chained chlorinated paraffins In accordance with paragraph 7 (a) of Article 8 of the Convention, the Committee examined the draft risk profile of short-chained chlorinated paraffins and considered that the information available was insufficient to support a decision on the risk profile. Therefore, the Committee agreed to defer its final decision to the fourth meeting and invited Parties and observers to submit to the Secretariat additional information specified in Annex E of the Convention.
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Invitation letter
Form for submission
Explanatory notes
Outline of the risk profile

Information for risk management evaluation (deadline: 5 February 2008)

Annex F information request
For: • Commercial octabromodiphenyl ether • Pentachlorobenzene • Alpha hexachlorocyclohexane • Beta hexachlorocyclohexane In accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 8 of the Convention, the Committee examined the risk profiles and decided that the chemicals are likely, as a result of their long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects such that global action is warranted. The next step in the process is to prepare a risk management evaluation for the four chemicals. The Convention provides that the risk management evaluation will include an analysis of the possible control measures, as well as the socio-economic considerations, and will take into account information to be submitted by the Parties and observers relating to the considerations specified in Annex F.
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Invitation letter
Form for submission
Explanatory notes
Outline of the risk management evaluation

Issues to be raised at COP-4 concerning the POPRC's recommendations (deadline: 30 June 2008 for five chemicals, 30 April for PFOS additional information)

Communication of the POPRC's recommendation
For: • Commercial pentabromodiphenyl ether • Chlordecone • Hexabromobiphenyl • Lindane • Perfluorooctane sulfonate The Committee completed its review of the available documents, considered the possible control measures, the available social and economic information, and comments and information submitted by Parties and observers relating to the considerations specified in Annex F. The Committee decided to recommend to the COP in accordance with paragraph 9 of Article 8 of the Convention that the Conference consider listing the above mentioned chemicals in the Convention. Parties are invited to notify the Secretariat by 30 June 2008 of any relevant issue that they may wish to raise at the COP-4. For PFOS, the deadline for submission of additional information specified in Annex F is 30 April 2008.
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Letter for PentaBDE
Letter for Chlordecone
Letter for Hexabromobipheyl
Letter for Lindane
Letter for PFOS (including request for additional information in Annex F)
Attachment to the letter

Information for the consideration of endosulfan

The Committee noted that the information required for the consideration of endosulfan had not been available to it and therefore it agreed to suspend consideration of endosulfan at the third meeting and to resume it at its fourth meeting. Parties and observers are invited to provide to the Secretariat (ssc@pops.int) any additional information for the consideration by 30 June 2008 for discussion at POPRC-4 .

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Endosulfan
Proposal by EU
Additional information

Submission of new proposals

In accordance with Article 8 paragraph 1 of the Convention, any Party may submit a proposal to the Secretariat for listing a chemical in Annexes A, B and/or C. The proposal shall contain the information specified in Annex D. In developing a proposal, a Party may be assisted by other Parites and/or by the Secretariat.
The deadline for submission of a new proposal to be considered at the fourth meeting of the POPRC is 20 June 2008. The proposal shall be submitted preferably by e-mail with electronic file attachments to: ssc@pops.int (Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention).