Stockholm Convention | 06/01/2021 | National Implementation Plan of Myanmar for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants - December 2020

The Stockholm Convention (SC) on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) was adopted on 22 May 2001 in Stockholm, Sweden, and entered into force on 17 May 2004. The objective of the SC is the protection of human health and the environment from these hazardous substances. The SC imposes a worldwide ban or control on the production and trade of POPs pesticides and POPs used in industrial processes and consumer goods, and requires the reduction and minimization of the unintentional production and release of POPs formed as unintentional by-products in industrial and combustion processes.

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