National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants 2013.

The purpose of the this Hungarian National Implementation Plan for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (or NIP) is to set up a homogenous framework for all tasks and activities necessary to fulfil the obligations stipulated by the international POP agreements, , and to determine the measures, which are aimed to minimize the amount of Persistent Organic Pollutants (or POPs) in the environment, followed by ban, restriction and emission reduction; minimize the harmful health impacts through the reduction of POPs in the foods. The structure of NIP complies with the UNEP and World Bank guidelines for the preparation of implementation plans for the execution of the Stockholm Convention, and its table of contents.
The four sets of priority measures are as follows: - To increase the number of POP emission measurements and monitoring efforts (air, water, solid residues, waste) and the number of controlled technologies (emissions from metallurgy, power plants, etc.) in order to obtain a higher number of more reliable data about the level of emissions – the measure component should be maintained; - To apply the provisions of the best available techniques (BATs) to the POP emitting industrial technologies – the measure component should be maintained; - To collect the oils from the equipment filled with PCB containing oil, perform their disposal in an environment-friendly manner and replace the oils in the equipment – the measure has been basically implemented according to HIR data. - To continue the collection of obsolete pesticide residues from the country and perform their disposal in an environment-friendly manner – the measure component should be maintained as it has been implemented only partially.