Study of Legal Aspects to present and execute POPs convention in Iran in order to submit legal framework to control persistent Organic Pollutants

Subject Areas : environmental management

Farhad  Dabiri ¹ ()
Taghi  Ebadi ² ()
Abbas  Pourhashemi ³ ()
Niloofar  Manoochehri ⁴ ()

Received: 2007-08-21 Accepted : 2007-10-16 Published : 2011-06-22

Keywords: Sustainable development, Persistent organic pollutants, UNEP, legal rules, POPs Convention,

Abstract :

In the recent years, the world has been considerably confronted with environmental problems and threats which have affected all human kind and other creatures and ecosystems. Therefore it created an international obligation to solve these global problems. Hazardous chemicals and persistent organic pollutants are among environmental risks and threats. These substances can affect humans and other creatures’ health in a long run.  Risk of different types of cancers, abnormal reproduction and transferring from generation to generation in human and animals are dire consequences which has also resulted increasing concerns about these dangerous situations. Persistent Organic Pollutants consist of 12 substances. Being aware of hygienic risks of pollutants, particularly their effects on women’s health and resulting problems in future generations and acknowledging disorders in oceans ecosystems and its native communities and subject to danger and their foodstuff contamination, are considered as general health issues, so global measures regarding persistent organic pollutants is essential. Therefore the UNEP governors’ council decided to develop and establish an international binding document on persistent organic pollutants on Feb 07, 1997. This convention is known as Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and was enforced in 2004. Regarding commitments of Islamic Republic of Iran to Stockholm Convention, one of the central fields of enrichment to enforce the POPs convention requirements in Iran is using legal means as well as proper executive structure observing the related bindings within legal rules and regulations, the commitments are enforced via a purposeful way. Trying to have a healthy, unpolluted environment and keeping it for the future generations among the required principles to achieve sustainable development is one of the most important goals of the international society