The sixth meeting of the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC) was held from 11 to 15 October 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland. Around 120 delegates attended the meeting, comprising of 29 POPRC members, 56 observers from different countries/regions, and over 20 NGO staff. Led by Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP), a delegation comprised of five officials from MEP, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) attended the meeting as observers.

Decisions on three nominated chemicals were reached as follows:

Short-chained chlorinated paraffins (SCCP): The committee reviewed the revised risk profile and decided to postpone any decision-making until additional information on whether SCCP is likely, as a result of long-range environmental transport, to lead to significant adverse human health and/or environmental effects.

Hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD): The committee reviewed and adopted the risk profile on HBCD and concluded that HBCD should proceed to the risk management phase for review in POPRC7.

Endosulfan: The committee reviewed and adopted the risk management evaluation on endosulfan and finalized a recommendation to the Conference of the Parties (COP) for its consideration on listing in Annex A of the Convention with special exemptions. All review documents and recommendations related to endosulfan will be submitted to COP5 in 2010.（translated by Pan Jie）