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Nine new Guidance materials were elaborated to assist Parties in updating Stockholm Convention IMplementation Plans, namely in relation to the newly added chemicals (in 2009 and 2011) and they are now available  online.

DDT experts met in Geneva 3-5 December 2012.

The eighth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC-8) of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) took place from 15-19 October 2012 in Geneva, Switzerland.

The case study Spatial modeling of pesticides concentrations and pools was presented on 24-25 October 2012 at the 21st GIS Esri conference in Prague in section of GIS internet applications.

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has released a publication Success Stories: Stockholm Convention 2001-2011 contributing to the sustainable development on 31 July 2012. Document comprises 37 inspiring stories on successes in implementation and positive impact of the decade long existence of the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants.

Research Centre for Toxic Compounds in the Environment (RECETOX) in cooperation with Institute of Biostatistics and Analyses (IBA) and the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention on persistent organic pollutants have organized a 3-day expert meeting on the future of data handling under the Global Monitoring Plan of the Stockholm Convention (13-15 June 2012).

Recent version of Browser of RECETOX data comes with new, user-firendly interface and, above all, more comprehensive data set, meaning both in number of compounds and presented projects.

A new case study was published in the GENASIS portal, which deals with spatial modelling of pesticides concentration and pools in soil.

Dear visitors, a new version of the GENASIS website has been launched on 22 February. We also apologize for eventual temporary problems or errors. Thank you for understanding.