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Form for submission of information specified in Annex F of the 

Stockholm Convention pursuant to Article 8 of the Convention

Chemical name (as used by the POPs Review Committee) Hexabromocyclododecane

Explanatory note: 

1. This chemical is undergoing a risk management evaluation. It has already satisfied the 

screening criteria set out in paragraph 4 (a) of Article 8 of the Convention. A risk profile has also been 

completed for this chemical in accordance with paragraph 6 of Article 8 and with Annex E to the 

Convention.

Introductory information

Name of the submitting Party/observer

Contact details (name, telephone, e-mail) of the submitting 

Party/observer

Date of submission

Additional Annex E information

(i) Production data, including quantity and location

(ii) Uses

(iii) Releases, such as discharges, losses and emissions

Explanatory note:

2. This information was requested for preparation of the risk profile in accordance with Annex E 

of the Convention. Please provide any additional or updated information.

(a) Efficacy and efficiency of possible control measures in meeting risk reduction goals (provide 

summary information and relevant references):

(i) Describe possible control measures

(ii) Technical feasibility

(iii) Costs, including environmental and health costs

Explanatory note:

3. “Risk reduction goals” refers to targets or goals to reduce or eliminate releases from 

intentional production and use, unintentional production, stockpiles and wastes and to reduce or avoid 

risks associated with long-range environment transport.

4. Possible control measures could include the following:

(a) Prohibition or restriction of production, use, import and export;

(b) Control of discharges or emissions;

(c) Replacement of the chemical by alternatives;

(d) Termination of processes which could lead to unintentional release of the chemical;

(e) Clean-up of contaminated sites;

(f) Environmentally sound management of obsolete stockpiles;

(g) Prohibition of reuse and recycling of wastes or stockpiles;

(h) Establishment of exposure limits in the workplace;

(i) Establishment of maximum residue limits in water, soil, sediment or food.

5. The following factors may influence the efficacy and efficiency of possible control measures:

(a) Legal, administrative, and enforcement measures in place including adequately trained 

personnel;
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(b) Monitoring measures in place including of suitable laboratory and monitoring capability;

(c) Risk communication system and public participation;

(d) Accessibility of alternative chemicals or processes;

(e) Accessibility of safe installations and technology to eliminate stockpiles.

6. Technical feasibility refers to whether a control measure already exists or is expected to be 

developed in the foreseeable future and possible challenges to its implementation. The following factors 

may be considered:

(a) What measures would be needed to effectively prohibit or restrict production and use;

(b) Chemical or non-chemical alternatives which are already in use or which could be phased-in;

(c) National standards for best available techniques and best environmental practices (BAT/BEP)

and inventory of installations meeting the BAT/BEP standards;

(d) Projects in progress involving elimination of stockpiles and clean-up of contaminated sites.

7. If relevant, provide information on uses for which there may be no suitable alternative or for 

which the analysis of social and economic factors justifies the inclusion of an exemption to any control 

measure adopted by the Conference of the Parties. Identify critical uses by detailing the negative impact 

on society that would result if no exemption is permitted. Explain why the exemption is technically or 

scientifically necessary and why potential alternatives are not technically or scientifically viable. In 

addition, provide a list of sources taken into account in arriving at the conclusion that no alternatives 

exist for a particular use.

8. Where relevant and possible costs should be expressed in United States dollars per year.

(b) Alternatives (products and processes) (provide summary information and relevant references):

(i) Describe alternatives 

(ii) Technical feasibility

(iii) Costs, including environmental and health costs

(iv) Efficacy 

(v) Risk

(vi) Availability

(vii) Accessibility

Explanatory note:

9. Alternatives could include chemical and non-chemical alternatives such as a substitute 

chemical, material, product, system, production process or strategy for a specified end use of the 

chemical under consideration. Provide a brief description of any alternative product or process and, if 

appropriate, the sectors, uses or users for which it would be relevant. If several alternatives can be 

envisaged for the chemical under consideration, including non-chemical alternatives, provide 

information under this section for each alternative.

10. Technical feasibility refers to whether an alternative technology exists and is applicable or is 

expected to be developed in the foreseeable future. Specify for each proposed alternative whether it has 

actually been implemented, whether it has only reached the trial stage or whether it is just a proposal. If 

an alternative has not been tried or tested, information on projected impacts may also be useful. 

11. Evaluation of costs should include environmental and health costs.

12. Evaluation of efficacy should include any information on performance, benefits, costs and 

limitations of potential alternatives.

13. Evaluation of risk should include any information on whether a proposed alternative has been 

thoroughly tested or evaluated in order to avoid inadvertently increasing risks to human health and the 

environment. It should also include any information on potential risks associated with untested 
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alternatives and any increased risk over the life-cycle of alternatives, including manufacture, 

distribution, use, maintenance and disposal.

14. Availability refers to whether an alternative is on the market and ready for immediate use.

15. Accessibility refers to the extent to which geographic, legal or other limiting factors affect 

whether an alternative can be used. Information or comments on improving the availability and 

accessibility of alternatives may also be useful.

16. Specify if the information provided is connected to the specific needs and circumstances of 

developing countries. 

(c) Positive and/or negative impacts on society of implementing possible control measures (provide 

summary information and relevant references):

(i) Health, including public, environmental and occupational health

(ii) Agriculture, including aquaculture and forestry

(iii) Biota (biodiversity) 

(iv) Economic aspects

(v) Movement towards sustainable development

(vi) Social costs

Explanatory note:

17. Social and economic considerations could include: 

(a) Information on the impact, cost and benefits to the local, national and regional economy, 

including the manufacturing sector and industrial and other users (e.g., capital costs and benefits 

associated with the transition to the alternatives), and impacts on agriculture and forestry;

(b) Information on the impact on the wider society associated with the transition to alternatives, 

including the negative and positive impacts on public, environmental and occupational health. 

Consideration should also be given to the positive and negative impacts on the natural environment and 

biodiversity;

(c) Information on the costs and benefits associated with environmentally sound management of 

waste and stockpiles of the chemical under consideration and the clean-up of contaminated sites.

18. Information should be provided on how control measures fit within national sustainable 

development strategies and plans. Developing countries, countries with economies in transition and 

small island developing States should describe their need for technical assistance to implement certain 

control measures.

(d) Waste and disposal implications (in particular, obsolete stocks of pesticides and clean-up of 

contaminated sites) (provide summary information and relevant references):

(i) Technical feasibility

(ii) Costs

Explanatory note:

19. The information provided on technical feasibility and costs should take the local context into 

account. This is particularly important for developing countries, countries with economies in transition, 

and small island developing States that require technical and financial assistance.

(e) Access to information and public education (provide summary information and relevant 

references):
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Explanatory note: 

20. Please provide details on access to information and public education with respect to both 

control measures and alternatives.

(f) Status of control and monitoring capacity (provide summary information and relevant references):

Explanatory note: 

21. With regard to control capacity, the information required is on legislative and institutional 

frameworks for the chemical under consideration and their enforcement. 

22. With regard to monitoring capacity, the information required is on the technical and 

institutional infrastructure for the environmental monitoring and bio-monitoring of the chemical under 

consideration. Please provide information on monitoring work relating to the Convention’s priority 

matrices (ambient air, maternal milk, human blood) and other health or environmental matrices (water, 

soil, sediment, food, aquatic and telluric fauna, migratory birds, etc.).

(g) Any national or regional control actions already taken, including information on alternatives, and 

other relevant risk management information:

Explanatory note: 

23. Actions or measures taken could include prohibitions, phase-outs, restrictions, cleanup of 

contaminated sites, waste disposal, economic incentives and other non-legally binding initiatives.

24. Information could include details on whether these control actions have been cost-effective in 

providing the desired benefits and have had a measurable impact on reducing levels of the chemical in 

the environment and have contributed to risk reduction.

(h) Other relevant information for the risk management evaluation:

Explanatory note: 

25. Please provide any other relevant information for the risk management evaluation.

I. Other information requested by the POPRC:

Explanatory note: 

26. The Committee may identify specific information required for the process of preparing a risk 

management evaluation in addition to Annex F information. Please provide any such information that 

you may have as indicated in the letter from the Secretariat inviting Parties and observers to provide 

information.

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