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Stockholm Convention
means the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) done at Stockholm on 22 May 2001, as amended and in force for Australia from time to time.
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Chemicals listed in the Stockholm POPs Convention
The Stockholm Convention is a global treaty that aims to protect human health and the environment from the effects of persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The United Nations describes POPs as “chemical substances that persist in the environment, bio-accumulate through the food web, and pose a risk of causing adverse effects to human health and the environment.
Australia does not automatically adopt controls for these chemicals but must take measures to eliminate or reduce their release into the environment. To ensure Australian compliance with this treaty, we consider the Stockholm criteria in all of our chemical assessments (the pollutants' criteria in Annex D of the Convention). Our criteria is built into our Guide to categorising your chemical importation or manufacture (Categorisation Guide) that all importers and manufacturers must use.
If you wish to import or manufacture (introduce) any chemical – including a chemical listed in the Stockholm Convention – you must work out your chemical's introduction category using our Categorisation Guide.