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UK National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) – Current issues Jaya Shah. April 2013. Obligations of the Stockholm Convention. 2005 - UK ratified 2007 - 1st National Implementation Plan 12 POPs, 4 unintentional by-products
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UK National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) – Current issuesJaya Shah April 2013
Obligations of the Stockholm Convention • 2005 - UK ratified • 2007- 1st National Implementation Plan • 12 POPs, 4 unintentional by-products • http://archive.defra.gov.uk/environment/quality/chemicals/documents/pop-nationalplan.pdf • 2013 - 2nd National Implementation Plan • 10 POPs, 1 unintentional by-products • https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/update-to-the-uk-national-implementation-plan-2007-for-the-stockholm-convention-on-persistent-organic-pollutants • https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/persistent-organic-pollutants-national-implementation-plan
Overview of the plan • Situation in the UK • Use, production and legacy issues • Regulatory controls • Emissions and trends • National Action
Unintentionally produced • Dioxins and Furans • by-products of combustion processes, industrial processes regulated • Hexachlorobenzene • contaminant level in chlorothalonil controlled • Pentachlorobenzene • quintozene not approved since 2002
Emissions data - sources • NAEI - National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory, since 1990, activity estimates and emission factors • IPPC/EPR Pollution Inventories – EU Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Directive/Environmental Permitting Regulations Pollution Inventories, since 1995 • UK PRTR – United Kingdom Pollutant Release and Transfer Register, since 2007
Challenges – 2007 NIP • Dioxin Action Plan – Dioxin Strategy Group • evaluation of current and projected release inventories for dioxins, PCB and HCB • develop and maintain source inventories and release estimates – • reducing emissions of unintentionally produced POPs • Emissions inventory – only air vector in 2007
Challenges – 2013 NIP • Very limited available data for new POPs • Diffuse sources of unintentionally produced POPs – improved understanding of emission sources and factors, difficult to control • Emissions from products in use and entering the waste stream – managing emissions
What are we doing next? • Listed POPs – uncontrolled emissions • PBDEs in non-electronic consumer products • Listed POPs - potential legacy sources • Lindane, alpha and beta hexachlorocyclohexane • Emerging candidates • Food and Standards Agency activities
Candidate POPs – WORK IN PROGRESS • Dicofol • Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) • Hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD) – No use or production in EU, unintentional by-product (Annex D) • Pentachlorophenol (PCP) – No use and production in EU • Chlorinated naphthalenes (PCNs?) – No use and production in EU, unintentional by-product • Short chained chlorinated paraffins (SCCP) – restricted in EU since 2002
Thank you THANK YOU Jaya Shah Jaya.Shah@defra.gsi.gov.uk 020 7238 1597