UNITAR, in collaboration with The Stockholm Convention Secretariat, has prepared "Draft guidance on calculation of action plan costs, including incremental costs and action plans for specific persistent organic pollutants" for COP4

In response to the requests below, UNITAR, in collaboration with the Secretariat, developed draft additional guidance on the calculation of action plan costs, including incremental costs, and action plans for specific persistent organic pollutants (UNEP/POPS/COP.4/INF/11).

By paragraph 5 of its decision SC-1/12, the Conference of the Parties requested the Secretariat, in collaboration with other relevant organizations and subject to resource availability, to develop additional guidance on calculation of action plan costs, including incremental and total costs and action plans for specific persistent organic pollutants, to assist countries in the preparation of national implementation plans and in doing so to take into consideration the particular circumstances of developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

By decision SC-3/8, the Conference of the Parties requested the Secretariat to complete the draft of the additional guidance called for in paragraph 5 of decision SC-1/12 for consideration by the Conference of the Parties at its fourth meeting, provided that the resources needed to do so were made available.

An interactive version of Annex 2 of the document, "Decision Trees to assist with the Implementation of the Stockholm Convention", can be downloaded at: http://www2.unitar.org/cwm/publications/pops.aspx