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Council Resolution: 07-06

Council Resolution: 07-06

Distribution: General

C/C.01/07/RES/06/Final

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH 

28 June, 2007

Closure of the North American Regional Action Plan on polychlorinated biphenyls

THE COUNCIL:

RECALLING Council Resolution 95-05 on the Sound Management of Chemicals (SMOC), and the direction of the Council for the development of a North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs);

ACKNOWLEDGING national efforts of the Parties in eliminating the deliberate production and use of PCBs and the continued decline of the use of equipment containing high concentrations of PCBs;

FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGING the collaborative efforts contributed by the experts of the trilateral PCB Implementation Task Force; and

NOTING therefore that the primary mandate prescribed under Council Resolution 95-05 respecting PCBs has been fulfilled;

HEREBY:

ACCEPTS the Task Force Final Evaluation Report: North American Regional Action Plan (NARAP) on PCBs;

ENCOURAGES the SMOC Working Group, through the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Standing Committee, to continue sharing and coordinating inventory and technical information on PCBs to ensure that the long-term objectives of the NARAP on PCBs continue to be met; and

REQUESTS the SMOC Working Group to present a report, by 2010 to the Council, on domestic implementation of PCB NARAP action items and an analysis of domestic PCB inventory/domestic annual report information.

 

APPROVED ON BEHALF OF THE COUNCIL:

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David McGovern

Government of Canada

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Enrique Lendo Fuentes

Government of the United Mexican States

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Judith E. Ayres

Government of the United States of America

Closure of the North American Regional Action Plan on polychlorinated biphenyls