News Conclusions of the forum 7th Int.’l HCH and pesticides forum, Kyiv, 5-7 June 2003

Source John Vijgen
Release date 27/08/2003
Contributor bulanmir

The 7th International HCH and Pesticides Forum was held in Kyiv, Ukraine, from 5 to 7 June 2003, at the at the National Agricultural University and was finalised at the Ukrainian Parliament, with the 150 participants. The Forum dealt with the continuing risk of damage to the environment and of harmful effects on human health caused by the environmentally unsound management of stocks of hazardous wastes, in particular obsolete pesticides and other unwanted persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and made strong efforts to work towards the establishment of a POPs and Obsolete Pesticides Stockpile Programme for Central European and EECCA Countries for the environmentally sound management of unwanted stocks of POPs and other obsolete pesticides. Read the conclusions, declarations and support letters in http://www.hchforum.com/conclusions.php

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