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Summary & Analysis Reports
IISD Reporting Services (IISD RS) has produced daily web updates and a summary and analysis of the POPRC-9 meeting. To download our report, kindly click the HTML or PDF icons below. In addition, IISD RS has produced web updates from the POPRC9/CRC Joint Session and CRC-9 meeting. A summary and analysis of CRC9/CRC-POPRC9 Joint Session will be available on this site on Monday, 28 October 2013. |
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Ninth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC9) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants
14-19 October 2013, UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) headquarters, Rome, Italy
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Highlights for Wednesday, 16 October 2013
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POPRC-9 reconvened in plenary on Wednesday morning to hear reports from the working groups and continue its consideration of individual agenda items, including: the approach to the evaluation of chemicals in accordance with Annex E to the Stockholm Convention; rotation of membership; guidance on how to assess the possible impact of climate change on the work of the Committee; and coordination and collaboration with other scientific subsidiary bodies.
In the morning, Estefânia Gastaldello Moreira (Brazil) reported that the PCP drafting group had made progress, and requested the group become a Friends of the Chair group to enable an incoming member to participate in the discussion. Peter Dawson (New Zealand) indicated that the decaBDE contact group reached agreement on chemical identity, persistence, adverse effects and LRET, but not bioaccumulation. Francisca Katagira (Tanzania) reported that the dicofol contact group had a “long discussion” of persistence, with particular focus on the various pH levels found in different bodies of water. In response to a request from a member, the group was asked to reconvene in the afternoon to review the criteria set out in Annex D, and then to convert into a drafting group to move forward on its work. Mohammed Khashashneh (Jordan) reported that the drafting group on the process for evaluation of PFOS, its salts and PFOSF had completed much of its work and agreed to assess the limited number of alternatives available for PFOS for acceptable uses.
In the afternoon, the Committee elected Estefânia Gastaldello Moreira (Brazil) and Azhari Abdelbagi (Sudan) as Chair and Vice-Chair of the POPRC, respectively, effective 5 May 2014. All chairs reported on their progress indicating that they needed to reconvene to finalize their work. In addition, POPRC-9 adopted decisions on guidance on alternatives to PFOS, its salts, PFOSF and their related chemicals, and on guidance on how to assess the possible impact of climate change on the POPRC's work. The POPRC also decided to recommend the listing of chlorinated naphthalenes in Annexes A and C of the Stockholm Convention.
The three working groups, as well as a newly-formed Friends of the Chair group on the process for evaluation of PFOS, its salts and PFOSF, convened in the evening.
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| L-R: Mark Trewhitt, CropLife International, and Gary Fan, Australia, discuss dicofol during a break. |
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Daily web highlights (click on the following links to see our daily web pages)
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POPRC 9 resources
 Meeting website
Meeting provisional agenda
Meeting documents
Provisional agenda of the POPRC-9 pre-meeting, 13 October 2013
POPRC Members
CRC 9 resources
Meeting website
Meeting documents
Meeting provisional agenda
CRC overview and mandate
PIC CRC 9 Members
CRC and POPRC Joint meeting resources
Meeting website
Meeting documents
IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Eleventh meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Basel Convention (BC COP11), Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Rotterdam Convention (RC COP6), Sixth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention (SC COP6) and Second simultaneous extraordinary meetings of the three Conferences of the Parties to the three conventions (ExCOPs2), 28 April - 10 May 2013, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS summary and analysis of POPRC-8, 15-19 October 2012, Geneva, Switzerland (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS summary and analysis of CRC 8, 19-23 March 2012, Geneva, Switzerland (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of RC COP-5, 20-24 June 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS summary and analysis of POPRC-7, 10-14 October 2011, Geneva, Switzerland (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of SC COP-5, 25-29 April 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS summary and analysis of POPRC-6, 11-15 October 2010, Geneva, Switzerland (English: HTML - PDF) (French: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of ExCOPs-1 and Eleventh Special Session of the UNEP Governing Council/ Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GCSS-11/GMEF), 22-26 February 2010, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS briefing note of the POPRC-5, 12-16 October 2009, Geneva, Switzerland (HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of SC COP4, 4-8 May 2009, Geneva, Switzerland
IISD RS coverage of RC COP-4, 27-31 October 2008, Rome, Italy
IISD RS coverage of BC COP-9, 23-27 June 2008, Bali, Indonesia
IISD RS coverage of BC COP-8, 27 November - 1 December 2006, Nairobi, Kenya
IISD RS archive of meetings on chemicals management
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Chemicals and Wastes Policy & Practice - A Knowledgebase of International Activities Addressing Chemicals and Wastes Policy
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