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Ana-Maria WittSecretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions

GLOBAL MONITORING PLAN AND EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION

UNDER THE STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT

ORGANIC POLLUTANTSReport to the thirty-eighth session of the Executive Body for the Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution

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CORE MATR ICES

Air

Human milk and blood

Water (perfluorooctane sulfonic

acid)

GUIDANCE DOCUMENT

Harmonized 

methodology 

for sampling 

and analysis

REG IONAL STRUCTURE AND PARTNERSH IPS

Regional organization groups

Global coordination group

Strategic partnerships for 

monitoring

G L O B A L M O N I TO R I N G P L A N F O R P E R S I S T E N T O R G A N I C P O L L U TA N T S

establishes a harmonized framework for the collection of comparable 

monitoring data on POPs in order to identify trends in levels over time as 

well as to provide information on their regional and global environmental 

transport.

ART ICLE 16 ON EFFECT IVENESS EVALUAT ION OF THE STOCKH IOLM CONVENT ION

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15 pesticides

13 industrial chemicals and unintentional by-products

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M a j o r a c h i e v e m e n t s t o d a t e :C o m p a r a b l e P O P s m o n i t o r i n g d a t a

5 regional monitoring reports and the 

global monitoring report integrate 

results of 11 years of POPs monitoring

What are the GMP data telling us?

The presence of POPs is ubiquitous

If measures are implemented to reduce or eliminate releases of POPs the concentrations in humans and the environment are decreasing

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M a j o r a c h i e v e m e n t s t o d a t e :I n c r e a s e d g l o b a l c a p a c i t y f o r P O P s m o n i t o r i n g t h r o u g h s t r a t e g i c p a r t n e r s h i p s

Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme(AMAP)Global Atmospheric Passive Sampling (GAPS) Cooperative Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long‐range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe (EMEP)South‐East Asia air monitoring programmeResearch Centre for Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology (RECETOX)United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP Chemicals and Health)World Health Organization (WHO)

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M a j o r a c h i e v e m e n t s t o d a t e :

P u b l i c l y a v a i l a b l e P O P s m o n i t o r i n g d a t a

http://www.pops-gmp.org/

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M a j o r a c h i e v e m e n t s t o d a t e :E f f e c t i v e n e s s e v a l u a t i o n

Report of the Effectiveness Evaluation Committee

The global monitoring plan provides the necessary environmental monitoring information to fully support the evaluation of the effectiveness of the Convention

Recommendation: The global monitoring plan should be sustained in the long term to enable it to continue to provide valuable data for effectiveness evaluation.

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O n g o i n g w o r k t o u p d a t e t h e G M P G u i d a n c e

MandateParagraph 5(d) of the terms of reference of the global coordination group for the global monitoring plan (SC‐4/31).

PeriodicityContinuous process with new substances being listed in Annexes to the Convention.

Latest versionMeeting of the global coordination group and regional organization groups for the global monitoring plan, 30 May to 1 June 2018, in Brno, Czech Republic

COP‐9 to consider the draft updated guidance for the global monitoring plan

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Listing of chemicals in Annex A, B or C to the Convention: POPs Review Committee (POPRC-13 & POPRC-14)

• Recommendations to the COP-9 to: List dicofol in Annex A without specific

exemptions List PFOA, its salts and PFOA-related

compounds in Annex A with specific exemptions

Amend Annex B regarding PFOS, its salts and PFOS on the basis of its recommendations

Other outcomes:Adopted the risk profile for PFHxS, its salts and PFHxS-related compounds moving the chemicals to the next review stage

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TIMELINES FOR NEXT EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATION

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023COP-8 COP-9 COP-

10COP-

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Human survey

3rd GMP reports

3rd global report

EE Election EE

GMP

Effectiveness evaluation

National reports

Reporting Compiledreports Reporting Compiled

reports

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Thank youThe worldwide implementation of the Global Monitoring Plan is made possible

thanks to the generous contributions to the Stockholm Convention Voluntary Trust Fund from the Governments of Japan, Norway, Sweden, and through the European Commission’s Thematic Programme for Environment and Sustainable Management of Natural Resources, including Energy (ENRTP). Further, the contribution of the projects to support POPs monitoring activities in regions, funded through the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM), is greatly acknowledged. Monitoring activities, and data collection and analysis are implemented in the five UN regions in cooperation with strategic partners and through involvement of Regional Organization Groups and Global Coordination Group.

MORE INFORMATION AT:chm.pops.int