Annex 5 Reporting under the Article 15 of the Stockholm Convention

Source categories of releases of unintentional POPs under the Stockholm Convention are listed in Annex C Part II and Part III to the Convention. These source categories are also among those considered in the Toolkit, where they are placed into ten source groups to facilitate elaboration and reporting of POPs releases. The standard format for reporting PCDD/PCDF releases through national reports under Article 15 is given in Table III.5.1 below.

Some countries also report POPs releases to air and a number of other pollutants under the UNECE Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (CLRTAP). For these countries, the correspondence between source categorization under CLRTAP, according to the Guidelines for Reporting Emission Data under the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution (ECE/EB.AIR/2008/4) and the source categories of the Stockholm Convention is presented in Table III.5.2 below. Under the CLRTAP guidelines, sources are categorized according to the Common Reporting Format (CFR), which is a standardized format for reporting national emissions under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and CLRTAP. Within the CFR a standardized Nomenclature for Reporting (NFR) lists and classifies a number of source categories and sub-sectors by codes.