POPRC.1 Documents

  • Working Documents
  • Information Documents

Information referenced in document UNEP/POPS/POPRC.1/INF/9 (Perfluorooctane sulfonate proposal)

    1. Letter submitting the proposal from the Ministry of Sustainable Development of Sweden;
    2. Proposal for listing PFOS in Annex A of the Stockholm Convention prepared by the Swedish Chemicals Inspectorate (2005);
    3. Dossier prepared by the Swedish Chemical Inspectorate (August 2004) in support of the nomination of PFOS for inclusion under the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s 1998 Protocol on persistent organic pollutants to the 1979 Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution and the Stockholm Convention;
    4. PFOS risk reduction strategy and analysis of advantages and drawbacks, stage 4 final report, prepared by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the United Kingdom (March 2004);
    5. Draft environmental risk evaluation report on PFOS prepared by the Environment Agency of the United Kingdom (2004);
    6. Hazard assessment of PFOS and its salts published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (ENV/JM/RD(2002)17/FINAL) (November 2002).