To oversee and monitor the actions of the National Implementation Plan (NIP) of the first stage of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, in Brazil, a coordination group comprising representatives of the Ministries of Environment; Health; Labour and Employment; Development, Industry and Foreign Trade; of civil society organizations and of the industrial sector was set up. The ordinance establishing the creation of the group was published on Wednesday (July 14) in the Official Gazette.
Since 2004, when Brazil ratified the Stockholm Convention, the country has made a commitment to adopt measures to eradicate or minimize the use and the global circulation of substances classified as Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops) - chemical substances that are resistant to environmental degradation and toxic to humans and animals.
Brazil has joined the group of 164 countries that are committed to control all stages of the life cycle of the Pops, since production, importation/exportation, until the use and disposal, aiming at the gradual elimination of these kinds of substances.
For further information on Persistent Organic Pollutants (Pops), visit:
http://www.chem.unep.ch/pops/
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