National Workshop on New POPs Inventory Project “Integrated SC Toolkit to Improve the Transmission of Information under Articles 07 and 15"

The purpose of the national workshop was to launch the national activities to be performed for POPs data revision/collection and the integrated articles 7 and 15 electronic toolkit testing. Additional objectives of the workshops were: Familiarize the participants with the Stockholm Convention requirements in respect to Articles 7 and 5; Presentation of the national gap analysis report: overview on the quality and completeness of the National Implementation Plan(s) and national reports already submitted by Republic of Moldova, as well as other information systems, and conclusions and recommendations; Presentation of the overall POPs data revision/collection process: data to be revised/collected, timelines, national arrangements, stakeholders involved, necessary training for data revision/collection; Planning of the process of data collection/ revision and reaching the consensus with the representatives of the main target sectors on the process.