Persistent Pollutants Control Act.

The purpose of this Act is to protect citizens' health and the environment from hazards posed by persistent organic pollutants and to promote international cooperation by prescribing matters necessary for the control of persistent organic pollutants, such as dioxin, which are prescribed by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants for the implementation thereof. For the purpose of the present Act the term "persistent organic pollutants" means chemical substances that pose hazards to people and ecosystems, having the characteristics of toxicity, persistence, bioaccumulation, long-range transportability, which are prescribed by the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants. The text consists of 37 articles divided into 7 Chapters as follows: General provisions (I); Prohibition of or restriction on manufacture, exportation, importation or use of persistent organic pollutants (II); Regulation on discharge of persistent organic pollutants (III); Disposal of wastes containing persistent organic pollutants (IV); Control of instruments containing persistent organic pollutants (V); Supplementary provisions (VI); Penalty provisions (VII).