STOCKHOLM CONVENTION
ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC
POLLUTANTS (POPs)

Signatures and ratifications:

At the Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, held 22 to23 May 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden, the Convention was adopted and opened for Signature.  It remained open for signature at the United Nations Headquarters, Treaty Section, in New York, until 22 May 2002. 

• List of Signatories and Parties to the Stockholm Convention
  (Source: United Nations Treaty Collection)

• World map showing signatories and Parties to the Stockholm Convention
  (Signatories in green and Parties in red)
  
  
• List of Governments that signed the Final Act of the Conference of the Plenipotentiaries (Note: the Final Act is the report of the Conference; this list is closed, Governments only opportunity to sign was at the Conference itself);
   

• Checklist:  General steps to be taken prior to lodging instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval, accession or the like with the Secretary-General of the United Nations

For more information on becoming Party to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, contact: 

Bradford Smith, UN Treaty Section
United Nations Headquarters
New York, U.S.A.
tel.: +1-212-963-3942; fax: +1-212-963-3693
E-mail: smithb@un.org.