GEF: Regionally Based
Assessment of Persistent
Toxic Substances



Proposed Agenda - 1st Technical Working Group Meeting, Region 8
(Southeast Asia and South Pacific)
5-8 February 2002, Singapore

(revised 9 Jan 2002)


Day 1, 5 Feb 2002 (Tue)
Afternoon or
Arrival, accommodation
Asia Hotel,
evening
Scotts Road
Day 2, 6 Feb 2002 (Wed)
09.00-10.15
Welcome Address ­

Ministry of Environment, Singapore
Introduction of workshop participants ­­
10 min
Overview of Stockholm Convention &

GEF RBA PTS Project ­­ Gil Jacinto -
15 min.
Movements of POPs in the Global

Environment­ Des Connell ­ 40 minutes
10.15 ­ 10:30
Coffee break

10.30 ­ 11.30
Sources of PTS ­Lim Kew Leong

Concentrations of PTS ­ Sani Ibrahim

11:30 ­ 12:30
Discussion on sources and concentrations
12.30 - 13.30
Lunch

13:30 ­ 14:00
Continue morning discussion on

concentrations of PTS

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14:00 -18.00
· Paper presentation by participants (15-20 min.):
(Possible themes)
-
Dioxin Inventory; sources and inventories of pesticides, inventory of PCBs,
- Approaches of industry to PTS, POPs, obsolete pesticides, HCH Forum,
Biomonitoring/monitoring of POPs/PTS

· Australia (Greg Miller)
· Brunei (Hj Ibrahim Haji Abd Rahman)
· Cambodia (T. Seang Tana)
· Indonesia (Joeli Hartono Rianto)
· PNG
· Laos
· Malaysia (Mazlin Mokhtar; Zaini Assim)
· New Zealand

Day 3, 7 Feb 2002 (Thu)
09:00 ­ 12:30
Continuation of country presentations
· Philippines (Christopher Silverio and/or Maricar
Prudente)
· Singapore - Foo Swee Cheng
· Thailand (Pornpimon Chareonsong; Pornpit Silkavute)
· Vietnam (Nguyen Duc Hue)

12:30 ­ 13:30
Lunch

13:30 - 1700
The participants will be broken into two groups to analyse the presentations
and make recommendations to plenary regarding sources and environmental
concentrations, priority PTS, and key data gaps
Working group 1 (by compounds)
Based on the structure of Final
Working group 2 (by compartments)
Report
­ evaluation of
existing/lack of information, hot
spots
13:30 ­ 15:00
Working group 1
Chemicals set 1
Working group 2
Releases (industrial ­ air, water,
solid residue, product or
contaminant in product, open
burning)
15:00 ­ 15:15
Coffee break

15.15 - 17.00
Working group 1
Chemicals set 2
Working group 2
Environmental concentrations
(soils, sediments, water,
vegetation, animals, humans )
17.00-18.00
Plenary session ­ overview of working

group results ­ chairs
19.30
Common dinner

Day 4, 8 Feb 2002 (Fri)
09.00-12.30
Working group 1
Hot spots, regional priorities...
Working group 2
12.30-14.00
Lunch

14.00-18.00
The presentation of group reports, final

discussion

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Day 5, 9 Feb 2002 (Sat)
Morning
Departures of participants

09.00 ­ 13.00
The meeting of RT ­ the finalisation of

group reports

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1st TW - Preliminary structure of background documents:

a) Sources:

Executive summary
1. Background information to PTS sources
2. Data collection and quality control issues
3. Pesticides
3.1 Aldrin
3.1.1 Sources to air
3.1.2 Sources to water
3.1.3 Sources to land
3.1.4 Summary
3.2 Chlordane
3.3 DDTs
3.4 Dieldrin
3.5 Endrin
3.6 Heptachlor
3.7 Hexachlorobenzene
3.8 Mirex
3.9 Toxaphene
4.0 Industrial Chemicals
4.1 Polychlorinated biphenyls
5.0 Unintended by-products
5.1 Dioxins and Furans
6.0 Other PTS of emerging concern
6.1 Atrazine
6.2 Brominated flame retardants
6.3 Lindane (?-HCH)
6.4 Organic mercury
6.5 Organic tin
6.6 Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
6.7 Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
6.8 Short chain chlorinated paraffins
7.0 Literature Cited


b) Environmental levels:

Overview of levels, projects, monitoring programmes, hot spots, lack of information
- Air
- Deposition
- Surface waters (water and sediments)
- Seas:
- Inland waters
- Rivers
- Lakes, ponds, dams
- Soils
- Aquatic biota
- Terrestrial biota

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