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POPS REVIEW COMMITTEE INFORMATION REPOSITORY
THE CRITERIA
Any country that has ratified the Convention can submit a proposal to the Secretariat for listing a
chemical in Annexes A, B and/or C.
However, the proposal needs to contain the information specified in Annex D (INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS AND SCREENING CRITERIA).
This includes information on the :
Chemical identity and structure, including trade name/names, synonyms, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS)
Registry number and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) name;
Persistence in the form of evidence of half-life in water greater than two months, or half-life in soil or sediment greater than six months, or other evidence that of persistence;
Bio-accumulation in the form of evidence that the bio-concentration factor or bio-accumulation factor in aquatic species is greater than 5,000 or that the log Kow is greater than 5, or other evidence of high bio-accumulation in species, high toxicity or ecotoxicity, or monitoring data indicating bio-accumulation potential;
Potential for long-range environmental transport in the form of measured levels of concern in
locations distant from the source, or monitoring data showing long-range environmental transport, or environmental fate properties and/or model results that demonstrate the potential for long-range environmental transport through air (with a half-life in air should be greater than two days), water or migratory species; and
Evidence of adverse effects to human health or the environment or toxicity or ecotoxicity data
indicating potential to damage human health or the environment.
The nominating country also needs to state the reasons for concern and the need for global control.
In preparing the nomination the country can use technical expertise from any source.
Once a chemical has fulfilled the criteria, a Risk Profile as outlined in Annex E is prepared.
If on the basis of the Risk Profile, the Committee recommends and the COP accepts that the
chemical is
likely as a result of its long range transport to lead to significant adverse human health
and/or environmental effects such that global action is warranted, the chemical proceeds to the next
stage, that is the preparation of a Risk Management Evaluation.
Requirements of Annex E and Annex F are available at the Annexes tab at the top of this page.
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