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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.

罢丑别听POPs聽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聽POPs under the Stockholm Convention.

Comments

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鈥檚 own call for information. You can find more details 聽on the Stockholm Convention website.

Draft POPRC evaluation documents for these substances were subsequently available for comment on both the and a call for comments on 188体育.