Criteria 5: Stockholm Convention
Pesticide active ingredients listed by the Stockholm Convention in its Annexes A and B, and those meeting all the criteria in paragraph 1 of annex D of the Convention;
Annex A: Persistent Organic Pollutants to be eliminated
Annex B: Persistent Organic Pollutants
Annex D: Screening criteria for POPs
Identification procedure
Pesticides listed on Annex A and B can easily be found on the Stockholm Convention web site.
Whether pesticides meet the screening criteria for POPs, as defined in Annex D of the Convention, will need to be assessed by Regulators. Such pesticides may not (yet) be listed in Annex A or B.
The HHP Identification Tool presently only includes the parameters describing the criteria for Persistence and for Bioaccumulation. No explicit parameters for Long-range transport and Adverse effects are mentioned in Annex D; these are to some extent subjective. Therefore, the latter two criteria have not been included in the HHP Identification Tool. Regulators will need to assess these criteria themselves.
Annex D: Screening criteria for POPs:
Persistence AND | Bioaccumulation AND |
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Potential for long-range environmental transport | AND Adverse effects |
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Data sources
Annex A & B
Annex D
- Pesticide registration dossier
- Reputable pesticide property databases