This National Implementation Plan (NIP) of the Republic of Mauritius provides for defining the country’s commitment to the full implementation of the 2001 Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), through enabling activities, assessment of the current legislative and regulatory framework, and detailed inventories of POPs in the country. The Plan consists of: country profile; Institutional, Policy and Regulatory Framework with legislative and environmental sustainable development Policies; roles and responsibilities of institutions involved in POP life cycles; Mauritius’ international commitments and obligations; existing legislation and regulations regarding POPs; key approaches and procedures for POPs chemical fertilisers and pesticide management; assessment of POPs pesticides; assessment of Polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs (stockpiles, contaminated sites and wastes); assessment of releases from unintentional POPs by-products production; summary of future production, use and releases of POPs; existing programmes for monitoring releases and impacts; information, communication, awareness and education; relevant activities of non-governmental stakeholders; identification of impacted populations and environments; designed system for assessment, regulation and listing of existing and new chemicals. The proposed strategy in this National Implementation Plan aims first at defining the structure and institutional framework and then at implementing the number of activities and projects for the use, production, management and disposal of existing POPs; targeted actions concern the reduction of emissions of Dioxins and Furans; the activities include environmentally-friendly solutions to medical waste incineration, bagasse and sugar cane burning, open waste burning, landfill; the monitoring programmes focus on: the amount of POPs in food, animal feed, sediments. Targeted actions concern: production, import and export, use, stockpiles, reduction and elimination of POPs pesticides and of PCBs; registration for specific exemptions; development and capacity-building proposals and priorities.
Mauritius · 2005-06-01