National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants.

This National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) is a comprehensive policy document that shows the current weakness in the management of POPs and sets forth the strategies, measures and activities for improving the situation in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. National goals in the POPs management are: To establish and complete a comprehensive and sound national regulatory and administrative system that will facilitate the reduction of adverse effects of POPs on human health and environment to the minimum; To reduce and phase out the production, use and release of POPs; To legally, administratively and technically guarantee that POPs sources do not do not reproduced and their adverse effects do not recur.
The NIP identifies national priorities: Establishment of legal and administrative system, public awareness raising; Strengthening technical and institutional capacity to deal with POPs issues; Phasing out PCBs production and use; Phasing out POPs pesticides production and use; Reducing releases of unintentionally produced POPs; Environmentally sound disposal of POPs stockpiles and waste, and articles in use containing POPs; Remediation of contaminated sites in an environmentally sound manner. Based on the national priorities, activities are proposed in the NIP, including: Strengthening the legislative infrastructure for control of POPs and enforcement; Promotion of awareness in relation to POPs; Strengthening the information Base, surveillance and data management in relation to POPs; Institutional strengthening; Elimination of PCBs use, management of the waste; Elimination of POPs pesticides use, management of the waste; Elimination of POPs production; Identification and management of contaminated sites and articles; Reduction of unintentional POPs emissions. according to the NIP, Capacity building is a basis for the successful implementation of the Stockholm Convention and an important part of the action plans. Capacity building priorities of the DPR Korea in the period of 2009-2015 have been identified, including: Strengthening managerial and knowledge-based capabilities of Convention implementation institutions at central and local levels; Enhancing legislative and regulatory infrastructure with specific reference to developing limit levels pertaining to POPs; Enhancing capacities regarding POPs monitoring, sampling and analysis; Establishing technical capacities with reference to research into POPs alternatives and on other POPs management activities; etc.