Request for information on substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 2022
Requesting information to feed into draft Risk Profiles and draft Risk Management Evaluations for 3 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee
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The UK is a party to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which are substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in living organisms and pose a risk to our health and the environment.
They can be transported by air, water or migratory species across international borders, reaching regions where they have never been produced or used.
The POPs Review Committee (POPRC) has requested additional information relating to the following:
- adverse effects resulting from the long-range transport of chlorpyrifos, to inform revisions to the draft Risk Profile for chlorpyrifos (Annex E of the Stockholm Convention)
- socio-economic considerations for long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, their salts and related compounds, to assist the drafting of a Risk Management Evaluation (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)
- socio-economic considerations for chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14 to17 and with chlorination levels at or exceeding 45 percent chlorine by weight, to assist the drafting of a Risk Management Evaluation (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)
This information will help determine the need for any specific exemptions and acceptable purposes. These substances have been proposed for listing as POPs under the Stockholm Convention.
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Submissions were invited for a 4-week period from 31 October to 28 November 2022, inclusive. We received 2 responses and we have published a summary of responses.
This engagement was linked to the POPRC’s own call for information. You can find more details about this call, and future calls for information on the Stockholm Convention website.
Draft POPRC evaluation documents for these substances were subsequently available for comment on both the Stockholm Convention website and a call for comments on GOV.UK.
Last updated 15 August 2023 + show all updates
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We have added a summary of responses and government response to this request for information.
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First published.