Noting that paragraph 3 of Article 3 of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants requires those parties that have regulatory and assessment schemes for new pesticides or new industrial chemicals to take measures to regulate with the aim of preventing the production and use of new pesticides or new industrial chemicals which, taking into consideration the criteria contained in paragraph 1 of Annex D, exhibit the characteristics of persistent organic pollutants,

Noting also that paragraph 4 of Article 3 requires those parties that have regulatory and assessment schemes for pesticides or industrial chemicals, to take into consideration within these schemes, where appropriate, the criteria contained in paragraph 1 of Annex D to the Convention when assessing pesticides or industrial chemicals currently in use,