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The article is devoted to the results of the study in Belarus of the chemicals, additionally included in the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) – ‘new’ POPs. The features of ‘new’ POPs and the problems of their identification are shown. The situation with industrial chemicals based on ‘new’ POPs in Belarus, including polybromodiphenyl esters, per- and polyfluorinated compounds, short-chain chlorinated paraffins, polychlorinated naphthalenes and other POPs is briefly described. Estimates of technogenic flows of polybromodiphenyl ethers in the composition of polymer waste of electrical and electronic equipment, including the volume of their annual formation on the territory of Belarus, are given. The list of scientific and methodological and regulatory technical documents for the regulation of POPs in Belarus, developed as part of the implementation of a number of activities of State scientific and technical programs, National plans and subprograms on the management of POPs, is given. Priority measures for the environmentally sound management of POPs, additionally included in the Convention, as well as the main directions of further research are identified. |
