National implementation Plans: the road to implement the Stockholm Convention

SIDE EVENT Conferences of the Parties to the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

Jacqueline Alvarez Programme Officer Technical Assistance Branch

29 April 2013

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EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION (art. 16)

NON COMPLIANCE (art. 17)

Reporting National

Implementation Plans

Needs assessments

Others: guidance, tools

N A T I O N A L LEVEL

…

NIPs

Article 7 of the Convention: “Review and update,

as appropriate, its NIP on a periodic basis and in a manner to be specified by a

decision of the COP.”

OBLIGATION

A road to implement the Stockholm Convention

NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION PLANS Training and capacity building programme

PHASE 1 PHASE 2 PHASE 3

Webinars

Priority setting and Plan

development Establishing inventories

Process & Organization

Guidance

Face to face: regional, global

Fact sheets National online trainings

Case studies Supporting documents

2013 2012-2013

2009-2013

Guidance

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Guidance for the inventory PBDEs listed under the Stockholm Convention (2012)

Guidance for the inventory of PFOS and related chemicals (2012)

Guidance for socio-economic assessments (2007)

Guidance for action plan costing (2012)

Guidance for developing a NIP (2012)

GENERAL GUIDANCE Inventories

Guidance for the control of the import and export of POPs (2012)

Guidance for BAT & BEP for use of PFOS and related chemicals (2012)

Labeling of products or articles that contain POPs - initial considerations (2012)

BAT & BEP

Guidance for BAT & BEP for recycling & waste disposal of articles containing PBDEs (2012)

Revised

REVISED RECENTLY DEVELOPED

DRAFTS

Not revised

OTHER

GUIDANCE

Supporting documents

GUIDANCE

•Step-by-step companion guide to the review and updating of the National Implementation Plans – 2011 •Lessons learned and good practices in the development of national implementation plans for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, 2006 •New POPs – Publications •PCBs – Guidance documents on PCBs •BAT/BEP – Guidelines on best available techniques and provisional guidance on best environmental practices •Toolkit – Standarized toolkit for Identification and Quantification of Dioxins and Furan Releases •Waste and Stockpiles

Training tool POPs Waste E-Waste Technical guidelines adopted under Basel Convention

THANK YOU

FOR YOUR ATTENTION!