Methodology and organizational measures The development of national strategies for the management of PCBs stocks and wastes including a set of activities on decommissioning of PCB-containing equipment should be based on the results of the inventory of such equipment, materials and waste. Planning and execution of an inventory of PCBs in three newly independent states of the former Soviet Republics - Russia, Belarus and Ukraine - was carried out at different times and organizationally they were not linked. However, some principles and methodological approaches were implemented in common in these countries.