Regulation (EU) 2019/1021 of the European Parliament and of the Council on persistent organic pollutants.

Based upon the precautionary principle, the objective of this Regulation is to protect human health and the environment from persistent organic pollutants by prohibiting, phasing out as soon as possible, or restricting the manufacturing, placing on the market and use of substances subject to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, or the Protocol to the 1979 Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution on Persistent Organic Pollutants, by minimising releases of such substances, and by establishing provisions regarding waste consisting of, containing or contaminated by any of those substances. Where appropriate, Member States may apply stricter requirements than those laid down in this Regulation.