The overall objective of the National Implementation Plan (NIP) for the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is the safe life-cycle management, pollution control, reduction, treatment and finally elimination of POPs in Vietnam to meet the requirements of the Stockholm Convention on POPs, contribute to protecting human health and environment, toward sustainable development in Vietnam and international. The NIP also identified some cross-cutting objectives, namely appropriate institutional capacity, regulatory frame and stakeholder coordination for POPs and hazardous chemical management and substitution; enhanced capacity in science and technology for monitoring, understanding and management of POPs and hazardous chemicals in the life cycle with appropriate knowledge and information management and related infrastructure; broad stakeholder awareness on POPs and other hazardous chemicals, related environmental health problems and management and phase out solutions; and synergistic implementation of conventions and SDGs where appropriate and integration in national chemical and waste management and the sustainable development strategy. Moreover, the NIP defined specific objectives: Controlling and safely manage POP pesticides; eliminating the use of equipment containing PCBs in concentrations equal to or greater than 50 mg/kg by 2025; controlling, limiting the use, substituting by sustainable alternatives and safe managing the industrial POPs; controlling the risk, treating, recovering and monitor environment in the area of dioxin contamination from toxic chemicals used during the Vietnam War; continuously reduce the emissions of UPOPs from productions, industries, and livelihoods; controlling risk of UPOPs to the environment and human health; identifying, environmentally sound manage and disposing POPs stockpiles; and identifying, securing and remediating POPs polluted areas. The action plans and their activities included in this document are designed taking into account socio-economic and gender implications, the aim of their integration in the overall framework of chemicals and waste management, an integrated approach with other conventions where appropriate, with the implementation of related sustainable development goals and the principles and consideration of the sustainable production and consumption. Action plans have been developed for the management of individual POPs and for legislation/policy, stockpiles and wastes, contaminated sites with an own action plan for Agent Orange related polluted sites, for awareness raising, research capacity and monitoring, and management of environmental health. Priority projects have been identified.
Viet Nam · 2006-01-01