Comments received from Parties and observers

on Draft Risk Profiles and Draft Risk Management Evaluations

Parties

Armenia

Anahit Aleksandryan

-Update on submission of information on A-HCH and B-HCH

-Comments on drafts: Draft Risk Profile; Draft Risk Management Evaluations

Australia

Lee Eeles

-Comments on A-HCH, B-HCH, HBB, OctaBDE, PentaBDE, PFOS, SCCP

Ian Rae

-Comments by E-mail on Octabromodiphenyl ether:

Correction on Viberg references:  On page 23 there is reference to 'Viberg (2001a)' but no such reference is in the list at the end of the documebnt and there is not even a 'Viberg (2001)'. The reference should be to Viberg (2003) - specifically, Viberg, H., Fredriksson, A. and Eriksson, P. (2003).  Neonatal exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE 153) disrupts spontaneous behaviour, impairs learning and memory, and decreases hippocampal cholinergic receptors in adult mice.  Toxicol. Appl. Pharmacol. 192, 95-106.  There is a 'Viberg (2003)' reference in the list but it is not complete, only nested in another reference.

Canada

France Jacovella

-letter and comments on SCCP, OctaBDE, Hexabromobiphenyl, PFOS, PentaBDE.

China

Ruisheng Yue

-Comments by FAX.

Germany

-Comments

Estonia

Ott Roots,Ph.D

-Update on submission of information

Ghana

Jonathan A. Allotey

            -Comments on Lindane.

Japan

Mai Inamura

            -Comments on PFOS

Macedonia

            -Letter

            -Comments 1

            -Comments 2

Mexico

Misión Permanente de México

-Letter and comments on drafts.

Monaco

Mission permanent de la Principauté de Monaco

            -Letter

Mongolia

Enkhsaruul

           -Comments on draft risk profiles

Mozambique

Joseph Gungunhana

-Comments by E-mail:

 None of the proposed chemicals is used or produced in Mozambique.

Nigeria

Stella Mojekwu

-Nigeria will provide comments late.(communication by E-mail)

Norway

Janneche Utne Skåre

-Comments by E-mail on OctaBDE:

“I support the conclusions made and I have no important comment to the text.”

            -Comments by E-mail on SCCP, alpha and beta HCH and Pentachlorobenzene.

“The drafting groups have done a very good job. I agree with all the conclusions based on the available evidence and I have no important comments to the any of the drafts.”

-Comments by E-mail on PFOS, Chlordecone, Lindane and PentaBDE.

“I support all recommendations made. I have no important comments to the drafts.”

Liselott Säll

            -Comments on PFOS, Lindane, and OctaBDE

Qatar

Permanent Mission

            -Comments

Slovakia

Jan Hrabovsky

            -Comments on SCCPs and Lindane

Sweden

Johan Axelman

           -Comments on alpha and beta HCH, OctaBDE, Pentachlorobenzene, and SCCP.

           -Response to some of the comments/proposed amendments put forward by WCC for Pentachlorobenzene.

Switzerland

Bettina Hitzfeld

-Comments on Chlordecone, HBB, Lindane, PentaBDE, and PFOS

            -Comments on Alpha-HCH, Beta-HCH, OctaBDE, Pentachlorobenzene, and SCCPs. Submitted on June 28.

Trinidad and Tobago

Ministry of Public Utilities and the Environment

            -Comments on Alpha-HCH, Beta-HCH, and draft risk management evaluations.

United States of America

Amy Breedlove

           -Comments on Chlordecone, HBB, Lindane, OctaBDE, PentaBDE, PeCB, PFOS, and SCCP.

Industry

3M

Michael A. Santoro

            -Comments on PFOS

Bromine Science and Environmental Forum (BSEF)

Sofia Tzortzi

            -Comments on PentaBDE and OctaBDE

Chlorinated Paraffins Industry Association (CPIA)

Bob Fensterheim

            -Letter and comments on SCCP

European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA), Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), SEMI

K. Russell LaMotte

            -Comments on PFOS.

International Imaging Industry Association

Derek Guest

            -Comments on PFOS.

World Chlorine Council

Dolf Van Wijik

-Comments on Pentachlorobenzene

Morton Grove Pharmaceuticals Inc, USA

Chang Lee

            -Comments on Lindane. Submitted on July 25.

NGO

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) on behalf of the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)

Pamela Miller

            -Comments on Lindane

Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) and Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT) on behalf of the International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)

Medha Chandra

            -Comments on Alpha-HCH and Beta-HCH

International POPs Elimination Network (IPEN)

Mariann Lloyd-Smith

-Comments on Chlordecone, HBB, Lindane, OctaBDE, PeCB, PentaBDE, PFOS, SCCP

The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC), et al

Andrea Carmen

            -Comments