The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee,

Having completed an evaluation of the proposal by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to list chlorinated paraffins with carbon chain lengths in the range C14–17 and chlorination levels at or exceeding 45 per cent chlorine by weight in Annexes A, B and/or C to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, and having decided at its seventeenth meeting, in its decision POPRC-17/5, that the proposal meets the criteria set out in Annex D to the Convention,