REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF SLOVENIA No.: 18400-2/2008/8 Ljubljana, 9 July 2009 National Implementation Plan for the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Period 2009 − 2013 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................................................................V LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................................................ VI LIST OF ANNEXES........................................................................................................................................... VI ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ..........................................................................................................VII SUMMARY ......................................................................................................................................................... 11 1 INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................... 16 1.1 The Project of preparing the National Implementation Plan for the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants ............................................................................................................................................................. 16 1.1.2 Preparation of the National Implementation Plan for the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants17 1.2 Stockholm Convention.................................................................................................................................. 19 2 GENERAL INFORMATION ON SLOVENIA ......................................................... 21 2.1 Facts and figures on Slovenia....................................................................................................................... 21 2.1.1 Geography and population ...................................................................................................................... 21 2.1.2 Political and economic profile................................................................................................................. 21 2.1.3 Profile of the economic sector................................................................................................................. 22 2.1.4 Overview of the environmental situation ................................................................................................ 23 2.2 Institutional, political and legal framework ……………………………………………………25 2.2.1 Programme guidelines and fundamental legislation................................................................................ 25 2.2.1.1 Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants............................................................................... 25 2.2.1.2 The competence in the field of persistent organic pollutants in the Republic of Slovenia ......... 25 Application of Regulation 1881/2006 setting maximum levels for certain contaminants in foodstuffs which may include POPs substances, and Recommendation (2006/794) on the monitoring of background levels of dioxins, dioxin-like PCBs and non-dioxin-like PCBs in foodstuffs, is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food................ 26 2.2.1.3. The role and responsibility of the ministries, agencies and other government institutions in managing POPs....................................................................................................................................... 27 2.2.1.3.1 The Ministry of Health............................................................................................................. 27 2.2.1.3.2 The Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning................................................................. 28 2.2.1.3.3 The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food...................................................................... 29 2.2.2 International commitments...................................................................................................................... 30 2.2.2.1 International environmental conventions.................................................................................... 30 2.2.2.2 International Environmental Protocols ....................................................................................... 33 2.2.3 Legislation associated with POPs............................................................................................................ 34 2.2.4 Programming documents for plant protection products and chemicals with POPs................................. 39 The purpose of the operational programme for the management of waste oils in the period 2003-2006 is remediating old burdens, upgrading the current system of waste oil management, improvement of the existing systems of informing and reporting, and broader participation of target public. It focuses in particular on raising the awareness of all the entities involved, especially those related to households and areas where waste oils are generated because of the machinery used in agriculture and forestry. The Operational Programme provides for the measures to prevent the mixing of waste oils with other hazardous liquid waste, notably the PCB and PCT waste. ........................................................................................................................................ 40 2.3 Management of POPs substances in Slovenia............................................................................................. 41 2.3.1 General legal framework and the rules on trade and use of plant protection products in Slovenia ......... 41 2.3.1.1 Legal basis .................................................................................................................................. 41 II 2.3.1.2 Trade and use of PPP.................................................................................................................. 41 2.3.1.3 Education .................................................................................................................................... 42 2.3.1.4 Records on the trade and use of PPP........................................................................................... 42 2.3.1.5 Prohibitions on the trade and use of PPP containing POPs......................................................... 43 2.3.1.6 Control of the trade and use of plant protection products ........................................................... 43 2.3.1.7 Monitoring of pesticide residues................................................................................................. 43 2.3.1.8 Review of the status of PPPs with POPs substances in Slovenia................................................ 44 2.3.1.8.1 The use of plant protection products with POPs in the past..................................................... 44 2.3.1.8.2 Manufacture of plant protection substances with POPs in the past.......................................... 45 2.3.1.8.3 Overview of old stocks of plant protection substances with POPs .......................................... 46 2.3.1.8.3.1 Results of accounting the stockpile of plant protection products with POP substance at PPs retail sellers (URSK Survey, 2004)............................................................................................. 46 2.3.1.8.3.2 The results of registration of plant protection products and stocks - with POP substances in agricultural holdings (URSK Survey, 2004).................................................................................. 46 2.3.2 General legal framework and institutional scheme of PCB management in Slovenia ........................... 47 2.3.2.1 Legal basis .................................................................................................................................. 47 2.3.2.2 Measures to reduce, control and eliminate PCBs in Slovenia..................................................... 48 2.3.2.3 Action Plan based on the Operational Programme for eliminating PCB .................................... 48 2.3.2.4 List of records drawn up in the context of PCB.......................................................................... 49 2.3.2.5 Reporting and information.......................................................................................................... 49 2.3.2.6 Control of PCB equipment.......................................................................................................... 50 2.3.3 Overview of chemicals in Annex B of the Stockholm Convention......................................................... 51 2.3.3.1 Overview of unintentionally produced POPs from Annex C; chemicals (PCDD / PCDF, HCB, PCB) ....................................................................................................................................................... 51 2.3.3.2 Legal bases:................................................................................................................................. 51 2.3.3.3 The overall legal framework and institutional arrangements...................................................... 51 2.3.3.4 Overview of the sources of unintentionally produced POPs in Slovenia.................................... 56 Emissions of HCB in Slovenia in the last 4 years are extremely low. The main sources of HCB emissions were technological processes by 2002. Decrease since 2002 reflects the improvements