Persistent Organic Pollutants National Implementation Plan of Georgia

The Persistent Organic Pollutants National Implementation Plan of Georgia is a strategic document set for the period of 2011-2015. It aims towards developing maximally efficient strategies of persistent organic pollutant (POP) management in Georgia, as well as ensuring protection of human health and the environment through implementing sustainable policies. The national goals with regard to POPs are as follows: (a) developing and enforcing the integrated legal framework and institutional system, reducing and avoiding the impact of POPs in human health and in the environment; (b) ensuring detailed inventory, reduction and destruction of POP pollution in accordance with the requirements of the Convention; and (c) developing and implementing national and global measures that will avoid the creation of new POPs sources.