Impact assessment

Request for information on substances proposed as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) 2022

Requesting information to feed into draft Risk Profiles and draft Risk Management Evaluations for 3 chemical substances proposed as POPs to the UN’s POP Review Committee

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 31 October 2022
• Last updated: 15 August 2023 — See all updates

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Documents

Summary of responses and government response

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Request to inform substance Risk Management Evaluations (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)

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Request to inform substance Risk Profiles (Annex E of the Stockholm Convention)

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Information submission form: chlorinated paraffins (C14 to C17 and at least 45% chlorine by weight) (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)

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Information submission form: long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs), their salts and related compounds (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)

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Information submission form: chlorpyrifos (Annex E of the Stockholm Convention)

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The UK is a party to the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants (POPs), which are substances that persist in the environment, accumulate in living organisms and pose a risk to our health and the environment.

They can be transported by air, water or migratory species across international borders, reaching regions where they have never been produced or used.

The POPs Review Committee (POPRC) has requested additional information relating to the following:

• adverse effects resulting from the long-range transport of chlorpyrifos, to inform revisions to the draft Risk Profile for chlorpyrifos (Annex E of the Stockholm Convention)
• socio-economic considerations for long-chain perfluorocarboxylic acids, their salts and related compounds, to assist the drafting of a Risk Management Evaluation (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)
• socio-economic considerations for chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14 to17 and with chlorination levels at or exceeding 45 percent chlorine by weight, to assist the drafting of a Risk Management Evaluation (Annex F of the Stockholm Convention)

This information will help determine the need for any specific exemptions and acceptable purposes. These substances have been proposed for listing as POPs under the Stockholm Convention.

Comments

Submissions were invited for a 4-week period from 31 October to 28 November 2022, inclusive. We received 2 responses and we have published a summary of responses.

This engagement was linked to the POPRC’s own call for information. You can find more details about this call, and future calls for information on the Stockholm Convention website.

Draft POPRC evaluation documents for these substances were subsequently available for comment on both the Stockholm Convention website and a call for comments on GOV.UK.

Published 31 October 2022
Last updated 15 August 2023 + show all updates

1. 15 August 2023

   We have added a summary of responses and government response to this request for information.

2. 31 October 2022

   First published.