The National Implementation Plan-II (NIP-II) 2019 for the Stockholm Convention is an output of the project titled “Enabling activities to review and update the NIP for SC on POPs” in the Republic of Mozambique, funded by the Global Environmental Facility Fund (GEF). This NIP-II document elaborates the current situation on POPs and states the country’s commitments and actions that it intends to undertake in respect of the management and control of POPs for the 5 years period, commencing in 2020. The identified priority actions for POP Pesticides are: Treatment of contaminated sites; Enforcement of the regulation including means for inspection (office Equipment and vehicles) for plant protection Department; Training of the technical staff on POPs issues; To incorporate detailed harmonized customs codification in the customs database for easy inventory and import control; To incentive integrated pest management and industrializing the processing of the organic pesticides; To built network on reporting pesticide importation from the Customs offices in order the report of importation can be directly from the customs office whit harmonized codification system; Sensitization and Awareness actions on POPs for the small agricultural fields with emphasis women. Identified priority actions for POPs-PCBs: Identification and Treatment of contaminated sites; Continuously Training of the Companies technical staff on PCBs issues; Inventory of Equipment containing PCBs; To build PCB transformers data base control; To build Central or regional storages for waste; To incentive the use of Mineral oil; To build network on reporting Transformer importation from the Customs offices using International Harmonized System Codification; Sensitization and Awareness actions on PCBs inside the electricity companies, transformer maintenance companies and Scrap. Main Priorities and Recommendations of the Preliminary Inventory of PFO - POPs are: Assessment of the main sources of chemical substances such as firefighting foams used by firefighters in firefighting, from companies; Regulatory framework; Incentives to alternatives to PFOs.
Mozambique · 2019-05-01