Considerations on COM(2013)131 - Submission, on behalf of the EU, of a proposal for the listing of additional chemicals in Annex A to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2013)131 - Submission, on behalf of the EU, of a proposal for the listing of additional chemicals in Annex A to the Stockholm ... |
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| document | COM(2013)131  |
| date | March 12, 2013 |
(2) As a Party to the Convention, the Union may make proposals for amendment of the Annexes to the Convention. Annex A to the Convention lists persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to be eliminated.
(3) According to available scientific information and review reports as well as taking due account of the screening criteria laid down in Annex D to the Convention, dicofol exhibits characteristics of POPs.
(4) Dicofol was nominated by the EU as a potential POP under the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution. Furthermore, according to the preliminary assessment by the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee, undertaken in the context of identification of alternatives to endosulfan, dicofol meets the criteria laid down in Annex D to the Convention.
(5) The placing on the market and use of dicofol has already ceased in the Union. It cannot be excluded that the substance is still produced, used or significantly unintentionally emitted in third countries.
(6) Due to the potential for long-range environmental transport of dicofol, the measures taken nationally or at Union level are not sufficient to safeguard the high level of protection of the environment and human health and wider international action is necessary.
(7) The Union should therefore submit a proposal to the Secretariat of the Convention for the listing of dicofol in Annex A to the Convention.