RECETOX  TOCOEN
& Associates

Prof. Dr. Ivan Holoubek

GEF: Regionally
Regional Co-ordinator

Based Assessment of
Veslarská 230B, 637 00 Brno, Czech Republic

Persistent Toxic
Tel.: +420 5 43 21 03 95, Mobile: +420 602 753 138

Fax: +420 5 43 32 12 95
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E-mail: holoubek@chemi.muni.cz

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FINAL CONCLUSIONS
OF
THE 1ST MEETING OF REGIONAL TEAM III EUROPE
BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC, APRIL 05-08, 2001-04-08

Participants:

- UNEP Chemicals: B. Wahlström
- RT: I. Holoubek, R. Alcock, E. Brorström-Lundén, V. Petrosjan, R. Otts, K. Blaha,
A. Kocan, J. Falandysz, D. Martens, S. Dutchak, V. Shatalov

Agenda, background documents participants have got all documents before the Meeting,
a copy for Project Manager will be sent by post.

Time schedule of all regional meetings:

(1) 1st Technical Workshop on sources and environmental concentrations, Brussels,
Belgium, 05-09/12/2001
(2) 2nd Technical Workshop on ecotoxicological impacts and transboundary movement,
Gotebörg, Sweden, 20-24/02/2002
(3) 2nd Meeting of Regional Team, Lancaster, UK, 10-14/04/2002
(4) Priority Settings Meeting, Pruhonice, Czech Republic, 29/05-03/06/2002
(5) 3rd Meeting of Regional Team, Brno, Czech Republic, 19-23/06/2002

Time schedule is the same for the Meetings (1) (3) and (5) meeting will be organized
from Wednesday to Saturday Morning, travel days Tuesday, Sunday. Priority Settings
Meeting will be organized from Wednesday to Sunday, travel days Tuesday, Monday (or
Sunday evening).

The personal responsibilities for the preparation of background materials:

- sources: Alcock, Holoubek
- environmental levels: Roots, Holoubek
- transboundary movements: Brorström-Lundén, Holoubek
- ecotoxicological effects: Petrosjan, Holoubek

- regional capacity to manage PTS and analyse the root causes of the problems:
Holoubek, Bláha
- alternatives to PTS chemicals and identify options for remediation: Holoubek

Personal responsibility for the meetings organisation:

- 1st Technical Workshop on sources and environmental concentrations, Brussels,
Belgium, 05-09/12/2001 Holoubek, Lecloux
- 2nd Technical Workshop on ecotoxicological impacts and transboundary movement,
Gotebörg, Sweden, 20-24/02/2002 Holoubek, Brorström-Lundén
- 2nd Meeting of Regional Team, Lancaster, UK, 10-14/04/2002 Holoubek, Alcock
- Priority Settings Meeting, Pruhonice, Czech Republic, 29/05-03/06/2002 Holoubek,
Blaha
- 3rd Meeting of Regional Team, Brno, Czech Republic, 19-23/06/2002 Holoubek

Common tasks to the end of April:

- Design of chapters the responsible members of Core Team + all others
- Any suitable information for any Chapters of Regional Report to the responsible
persons or to Holoubek
- The participants of the 1st and 2nd Technical Workshops
- Any suitable members of Local Experts Network
- Any members of future PTS Expert Network
- The first version of Chapters end of August

The main concept of Regional Report:

The main important base for Regional Report existing reports, papers, databases etc.

List of regional priority compounds:

16 POPs of UN ECE Convention of LRTAP + any other which will be recognized during the
project as regional priorities.