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

According to the Article 7 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, each party shall develop a national implementation plan (NIP) to fulfill its obligations under the Convention. The Republic of Korea prepared and submitted the first Korean NIP in 2009 after the ratification in 2007, and its 1st update in December 2011. This NIP as the 2nd update describes the national implementation status and plan regarding five new POPs such as endosulfan, HBCD, HCBD, PCP and PCN listed from 2011 to 2015.
The Ministry of Environment developed priliminary drinking water monitoring parameters of PFOS, PFOA and PFHxS, and added them into its monitoring program in 2018. PFAS monitoring has been strengthened in drinking water system, water purification plant, and wastewater treatment plant nationwide. The technology of wastewater treatment is being developed to reduce PFASs input into water system
Based on a status survey concerning products and wastes containing 4,5-BDE and 6,7-BDE with specific exemptions of products in use, Korea is to draw up control measures for appropriate disposal. Besides, Korea is exerting efforts to improve the management of HBCDs-containing wastes to minimize their release into the environment and banned recycling of wastes containing HBCD for the production of buoys since 2017 to prevent the pollution of the marine environment.