The Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee,

Having completed an evaluation of the proposal by the European Union and its member States that are parties to the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants to list pentachlorophenol and its salts and esters in Annexes A, B and/or C to the Stockholm Convention and having decided at its eighth meeting, in its decision POPRC-8/4, that the proposal meets the criteria set out in Annex D to the Convention,