Jordan’s update of the National Implementation Plan under the Stockholm Convention referring to the COP5 decision including technical endosulfan and its related isomers.

This update of the National Implementation Plan under the Stockholm Convention is a nationwide sectoral document aiming at assessing the situation in Jordan in relation to the amendment adopted during the fifth meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Stockholm Convention on POPs to list technical Endosulfan and its related isomers to Annex A of the Stockholm Convention. An inventory of persistent organic pesticides is established in cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture, including all sectors dealing with pesticides in private and governmental sectors, and at present, there is no manufacturing, formulation, import, placing on the market, and legal use of Endosulfan in Jordan. Considering that Endosulfan was banned in 2003 and that no Endosulfan was found in stores, the national policy is in line with Stockholm Convention provisions related to Endosulfan.