NATIONAL PLAN of actions for implementation of Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (updated).

The basic principles of the National Action Plan on POPs: (a) priority of people and future generations’ health protection from the negative impact of the factors that pollute the environment; (b) priority of environment protection issues when making political and economic decisions; (c) priority of environmental legislation, environmental standards and regulations in its business activities, to prevent and/or reduce the negative environmental impacts; and (d) interagency cooperation and responsibility of the executive branch bodies for the state of environment and natural resources and the implementation of joint measures to protect the environment from man-made pollution.
The main strategic goals of the NAP on providing safety from POPs are in: (a) improving the environmental situation in the Kyrgyz Republic; and (b) reducing their adverse impact on public health.
Planned import of chemicalization agents into the country, revision of the range of permitted pesticides, their prolonged storage and other circumstances resulted in accumulation of significant quantities of outdated and banned pesticides in warehouses, bases and other storage facilities. There were attempts to resolve the problem of destruction of banned and outdated pesticides by burial in so-called burial grounds, but these burial grounds only partially resolved the problem of adverse impact of outdated pesticides upon the environment. However, low living standard of rural population, insufficient level of control create prerequisites for contraband import of outdated and banned pesticides, their plunder from opened burial grounds, and also at account of stocks privately owned by farms. In the recent years, non-registered banned cheap specimens from China were noted in the markets of the country. The revealed problems with outdated and POPs-pesticides indicate the necessity of making further actions for their localization and subsequent disposal in accordance with provisions of the Stockholm Convention.