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The Regional Activity Center for Cleaner Production (CP/RAC) organizes a workshop on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) that will be held in American University of Cairo (Egypt) on 15th November 2011.

The objective of the workshop is to give students and young people in general basic information about some toxic chemicals that are present in our day life. Participants will be shown where these chemicals are, how they can affect our health and environment and with which solutions we count in order to minimize their presence in our environment.

On 9^th January of 2011, the Ministry of Environmental Protection of Israel organized a meeting in order to start the process of ratification of the Stockholm Convention and the preparation of the National Implementation Plan.

Two of the Regional Centres under the Convention, the CP/RAC and RECETOX were participating in the meeting for providing Israel assistance in its initial stage towards the implementation of the Convention..

During the last Conference of the Parties of the Stockholm Convention, it was approved the decission of including the nine new chemicals in the Convention.

Parties are now requested to review their National Implementation Plans and update it when appropiate according with the ammendments of the annexes.

The CP/RAC participated in the 2nd Workshop for Stockholm Convention Regional and subregional Centres.

The meeting was organized by the Secretariat of the Convention and it was held in Geneva during 28 September 2nd October 2009. Representatives from all the centres were present at the meeting and there were two different modules:

- A general module dealing with the following uo of the COP decissions on the technical assistance and capacity buiding.