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STOCKHOLM CONVENTION ON PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS (POPs) Effectiveness Evaluation Provisional Ad Hoc Technical Working Group (TWG) 2nd meeting, Geneva, 30 Jan. -3 Feb. 2007 Document UNEP/POPS/GMP/TWG-2/6 Compilation of existing national monitoring programmes, activities and datasets (updated, January 2007) Secretariat Note The Conference of Parties, in its decision SC-2/13, requested the Secretariat to identify monitoring programmes that may update the information presented in document UNEP/POPS/COP.2/INF/10 on existing human health and environment monitoring programmes, including other programmes that can contribute to the Global Monitoring Plan. With this request, the Secretariat has distributed questionnaires (Questionnaire I) to countries and international organizations for information collection to identify existing monitoring programmes, including other programmes that can contribute to a global monitoring plan on POPs for effectiveness evaluation of Stockholm Convention. As of 29 January 2007, the Secretariat has received responses from one international organization -AMAP and 36 countries which are: Austria, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Congo (RDC), Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dominica, Ecuador, Ethiopia, France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Iran, Japan, Madagascar, Mali, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland Tajikistan, Tanzania and UK. The information from these responses is presented in the annex to this note. It contains also complete information from the UNEP/POPS/COP.2/INF/10 document. To differentiate the information sources, new information based on the questionnaire survey is presented in regular font, and the information coming from other sources, as indicated in para 2 of the document UNEP/POPS/COP.2/INF/10, is presented in italic font. Glossary of terms Activity Any programme or other activity or project that