Vanuatu National Plan for implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants

Abstract

This document presents a National Plan for the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Republic of Vanuatu. Vanuatu signed the Convention on May 21, 2002 and ratified it on September 16, 2005 after the Convention had come into force on 17 May 2004.Vanuatu has since ensured its national and international commitments to the Convention by working towards adhering to its recommendations and mandates. In order for POPs to be removed in 2008 under the POPs in PICs project, Vanuatu had to ratify the Waigani Convention. Therefore in 2005, Vanuatu signed the Waigani Convention and ratified it in June 2008. This enabled neighboring countries to aide us in the removal of POPs at the end of 2008.