This section intends to compile and present information on relevant regional agreements related to control, reduction or elimination of Persistent Organic Pollutants: their production, commercialisation, use or waste.

At the moment, some relevant regional agreements are named and listed, but with time, it is expected this section wil provide you with more in detail information of each one the regional agreements here presented.

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• Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution (1979) and its Aarhus Protocol on POPs (1998)
  
  www.unece.org/env/lrtap/
  
  
• Barcelona Convention for the Protection of the Mediterranean Sea Against Pollution (1976) and its Izmir Protocol (1996)
  
  www.unepmap.org
  
  
• Waigani Convention to Ban the Importation into Forum Island Countries of Hazardous and Radioactive Wastes and to Control the Transboundary Movement and Management of Hazardous Wastes within the South Pacific Region (1995)
  
  www.forumsec.org.fj/docs/Gen_Docs/wc.htm & www.basel.int/Misclinks/waigani.html
  
  
• Bamako Convention on the Ban of the Import into Africa and the Control of Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes within Africa (1991)
  
  www.africaunion.org/
  
  
• Cartagena Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment in the Wider Caribbean Region (1983)
  
  www.cep.unep.org/law/cartnut.html
  
  
• Central American Regional Agreement on Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes (1992)
  
  www.basel.int/Misclinks/Centroamerica.html