POPS REVIEW COMMITTEE INFORMATION REPOSITORY THE REVIEW PROCESS Once the Secretariat verifies that a proposal for listing contains the required information, it is forwarded to the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) for consideration. If POPRC decides that screening criteria have been fulfilled, the proposal is made available to all Parties and observers and they are invited to submit the information specified in Annex E (Iinformation Requirements for the Risk Profile). This includes information on: Sources such as production quantity and location, uses and releases; Hazard assessments for the endpoints of concern, including consideration of interactions with other chemicals; Evironmental fate such as environmental transport and transfer, degradation, measured bio-concentration or bio-accumulation factors; Monitoring data; Exposure and bio-availability; Other national and international risk evaluations, labelling information and hazard classifications; and Chemical status under international conventions. The POPRC then further reviews the proposal, taking into account any relevant additional information received, and prepares a draft risk profile and makes that draft available to all Parties and observers for comment. Based on their technical comments, the POPRC completes the risk profile. If, on the basis of that risk profile, the POPRC decides "the chemical is likely as a result of its long-range environmental transport to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects such that global action is warranted," the proposal proceeds to the next stage. Importantly, lack of full scientific certainty can not prevent the proposal from proceeding. The Committee then invites all Parties and observers to provide any information on socio-economic considerations as described in Annex F(INFORMATION ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS). An evaluation of possible control measures and options, including management and elimination is required. The evaluation should consider: Efficacy and efficiency of possible control measures including technical feasibility; and and environmental and health costs; and Alternatives including their technical feasibility, environmental and health costs, efficacy, risks, availability and accessibility, societal impacts of implementing possible control measures, including impacts on public, environmental and occupational health; agriculture, biota (biodiversity), economic aspects; sustainable development, social costs, waste and disposal implications, technical feasibility, costs, information access and public education, control and monitoring capacity; and national or regional control actions. Based on this information a risk management evaluation including analysis of possible control measures is prepared. The POPRC then based on the risk profile and the risk management evaluation recommend whether the chemical should be considered by the Conference of the Parties for listing in Annexes A, B and/or C. Then taking account of the recommendations of the POPRC, including any scientific uncertainty, and in a precautionary manner, the Conference of the Parties decide whether to list the chemical, and specify the control measures, in Annexes A, B and/or C. If a Proposal is rejected, it can be resubmitted and a Party can challenge the decision of the POPRC. Calendar Meetings Submissions Outcomes CRITERIA POPRC PROCESS STAKEHOLDERS CANDIDATE POPS SYNERGY REFERENCE LIBRARY